Folio from a Qur'an, Sura 38:64-69

Object Details

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Qur'an; recto: Sura Sad (Sad) 38: part of 64, 65 and 66, recto begins with "al-nar"; verso: part of 66, 67-69, verso begins with "baynahuma"; Arabic in black kufic script; gold orbs stacked as pyramid-shaped verse markers; pear-shaped verse markers; vocalized in red and yellow; one column; seven lines of text; one of a set of 13 folios.

• Provenance

  To 1930

  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to 1930 [1]

  From 1930

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1930 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Untitled Exhibition, Persian and Near Eastern Art (May 5, 1933 to September 24, 1947)

  Untitled Exhibition, Persian Art (March 14, 1931 to May 5, 1933)

  Untitled Exhibition, South Asian and Persian Art (March 24, 1930 to March 14, 1931)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Founded 1870)

• Origin

  North Africa or Near East

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  900s, 800s, 700s, 1100s, 1200s, 1000s

• Name

  Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

• Place

  North Africa, Near East

• Topic

  Kufic script, West Asia, Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Qur'an, Sura 38

• Culture

  Muslims, Abbasids

• Object Type

  Manuscripts