Folio from a Qur'an, sura 58:1-4

Object Details

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Qur'an; recto: Sura al-Mujadila (the Pleading woman) 58: part of 1and 2, one column, 3 lines of text with two lines in illuminated title- bands; verso: sura 58:2-4, one column, 7 lines; Arabic in black muhaqqaq script with white headings in thuluth script, the word "Allah" in gold muhaqqaq script; illuminated rosette verse markers; marginal roundels; vocalized in black with red letters for recitation; one of a group of 3 folios.

  Border: The recto is set in an illuminated border; the verso is set in gold and black rulings on cream-colored paper.

• Previous custodian or owner

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962)

• Provenance

  To 1932

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York. [1]

  From 1932

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Hagop Kevorkian, New York. [2]

  Notes:

  [1] Curatorial Remark 1 in the object record. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Origin

  Egypt

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Date

  1300s

• Name

  Kevorkian, Hagop

• Place

  Egypt

• Topic

  Art, Mamluk period (1250 - 1517), Arts of the Islamic World, Illumination, Qur'an, Sura 58

• Culture

  Muslims

• Language

  Thuluth script, Muhaqqaq script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts