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Collection Online as of June 8, 2023

Folio from a Qur'an

1100s

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Seljuk Iran

Ink, gold, and colors on paper

Sheet: 30.6 x 20 cm (12 1/16 x 7 7/8 in.)

Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1933.488

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

Recto: Sura al-Rahman (55: 73-78 end) and Sura al-Waqi'ah (56: 1-part 26). Verso: Sura al-Waqi'ah (56: part 26-part 61).

Inscription Remark

Script: Eastern Kufi (twenty-three 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
Citations
Bulletin, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, XXVII, no. 162, p. 51
Exhibition history

Islamic art rotation. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (December 7, 2017-October 29, 2018).

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