Object Details
- Description
- Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Qur'an; recto: Sura al-Shuraa (the Consultation) 42: 1-7; one column, 9 lines of text; verso: sura 42: 7-13; one column, 12 lines; Arabic in black muhaqqaq script with a white heading in thuluth script; illuminated rosette verse markers; vocalized in red and black; illuminated title band; marginal roundel; one of a group of 5 folios.
- Border: The text is set in gold-black rulings on cream-colored paper.
- Provenance
- To 1930
- Kirkor Minassian, New York to 1930 [1]
- From 1930
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Kirkor Minassian, New York in 1930 [2]
- Notes:
- [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note.
- [2] See note 1. Also see Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Arts of the Islamic World (May 3, 1998 to January 3, 2016)
- Islamic Art (May 9, 1993 to June 3, 1997)
- Art of the Mamluks (May 14, 1981 to May 25, 1982)
- Art of the Arab World (May 8, 1975 to August 20, 1977)
- Untitled Exhibition, Persian and Near Eastern Art (May 5, 1933 to September 24, 1947)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Kirkor Minassian (1874-1944)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 14th century
- Period
- Mamluk period
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 40.9 x 32 cm (16 1/8 x 12 5/8 in)
- Type
- Manuscript
