Object Details
- Description
- Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Qur'an; recto: Sura al-Dukhan (the Smoke) 44:37-57; verso: sura 44:58-59, Sura al-Jathiya (the Crouching) 45:1-10; Arabic in black muhaqqaq script with round illuminated verse markers; vocalized in black; illuminated heading in thuluth script; one column; twelve lines of text.
- Border: The text is set in gold and black rulings on tan-colored paper.
- Provenance
- To 1969
- Adrienne Minassian, New York to 1969 [1]
- From 1969 to 1997
- Ralph and Catherine Benkaim, Beverly Hills, CA, purchased from Adrienne Minassian in 1969 [2]
- From 1997
- Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by Ralph and Catherine Benkaim in 1997
- Notes:
- [1] According to Provenance Remark 1 in the object record (see object file, Collections Management).
- [2] See note 1.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange Across Medieval Sub-Saharan Africa (July 16, 2021 - February 27, 2022)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Ralph and Catherine Benkaim
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- 14th century
- Period
- Mamluk period
- Credit Line
- The Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection
- Medium
- Black ink, color and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- H x W (overall): 41 x 32 cm (16 1/8 x 12 5/8 in)
- Type
- Manuscript
