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Qur'an Manuscript Folio

800s-900s

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Egypt?, Abbasid Period, 9th century

Ink, gold, and color on parchment

Sheet: 13 x 17.4 cm (5 1/8 x 6 7/8 in.); Text area: 9 x 14 cm (3 9/16 x 5 1/2 in.)

Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1933.483.b

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Sura Al-Tawba 9: part 33 - part 37. Kufi Script (fourteen lines to a page)

Provenance
?-1933
Ananda K. Coomaraswamy [1877-1947] sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art
1933-
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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