Object Details
- Description
- Manuscript; a section (Juz') of Qur'an; Sura al-Anbya (the Prophets) 21, Sura al-Hajj (the Pilgrimage) 22 with several missing folios; Arabic in black muhaqqaq script with interlinear Persian translation in naskh script; vocalized in black; 140 folios with a shamsa (fol. 1 recto), frontispiece (fol. 1 verso, 2 recto), and a finispiece (fol.140 recto), verse markers, marginal medallions; standard page: one column; 6 lines of text.
- Binding: The manuscript is bound in leather over paper pasteboards with blind tooling, geometrical interlace, and dot punches. The doublures are decorated with a dense pattern of interweaving 6- petalled and 12- petalled motifs.
- Provenance
- To 1940
- Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York. [1]
- From 1940
- Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Hagop Kevorkian, New York. [2]
- Notes:
- [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.
- [2] See note 1.
- Collection
- Freer Gallery of Art Collection
- Previous custodian or owner
- Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962)
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 13th-14th century
- Credit Line
- Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Medium
- Ink, color and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W: 27.7 x 17.8 cm (10 7/8 x 7 in)
- Type
- Manuscript
