The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 25, 2024
Folio from a Qur'an
1100s
Sheet: 30.6 x 20 cm (12 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.)
Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1933.488
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Kufic script was named after the ancient Mesopotamian city Kufa (in today’s Iraq), where it developed.Description
East Persian ornamental Kufic (a script used for Qur’an transcriptions) in black, red, and gold fill this page, which is additionally decorated with gold and blue medallions on its border. Twenty-three lines from the Qur’an’s Surah al-Waqi'ah (The Event, or Day of Resurrection; 56: 1–26) are on the recto and 23 lines from Surah al-Rahman (The Compassionate, 55: 73–78) are on the verso.- ?-1933Ananda K. Coomaraswamy [1877-1947] sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art1933-The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
- Bulletin, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, XXVII, no. 162, p. 51
- Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 7, 2017-October 29, 2018).
- {{cite web|title=Folio from a Qur'an|url=false|author=|year=1100s|access-date=25 April 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}
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