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Collection Online as of May 30, 2023

Page from a Qur'an (recto)

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.); Text area: 14 cm (5 1/2 in.)

Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1933.488.a

Location

not on view

Inscriptions

Inscription

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

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

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