Bookbinding

Object Details

• Description

  Dark brown leather on pasteboard, lined with chestnut-brown leather. Stained. Decoration in blind and gold tooling.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Kirkor Minassian (1874-1944)

• Provenance

  To 1930

  Kirkor Minassian (1874-1944), New York, New York. [1]

  From 1930

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Kirkor Minassian, New York, New York. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Origin

  Egypt

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Book

• Restrictions and Rights

  Usage Conditions Apply

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1400s, 1300s

• Name

  Minassian, Kirkor

• Place

  Egypt

• Topic

  Art, Mamluk period (1250 - 1517), Arts of the Islamic World

• Culture

  Muslims

• Object Type

  Books