Folio from a Qur'an

Object Details

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Qur'an; illuminated folio with a palmette projecting into the margin; reverse: Sura al-Tawbah (Repentance) 9:100; Arabic in black kufic script; vocalized in red; one column; 7 lines of text.

• Provenance

  To 1932

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York to 1932 [1]

  From 1932

  Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Hagop Kevorkian, New York in 1932 [2]

  Notes:

  [1] See undated folder sheet note, object file, Collections Management Office. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Exhibition History

  Arts of the Islamic World (May 3, 1998 to January 3, 2016)

  Art of the Near East (August 21, 1977 to December 14, 1979)

  Art of the Arab World (May 8, 1975 to August 20, 1977)

  Near Eastern Art--Calligraphy (August 18, 1967 to February 10, 1972)

  Near Eastern Art (January 1, 1963 to August 18, 1967)

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

  Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Mohammedanischer Kunst in München (May to October 1910)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962)

• Origin

  North Africa or Near East

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

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

• Name

  Kevorkian, Hagop

• Place

  North Africa, Near East

• Topic

  Kufic script, West Asia, Art, Arts of the Islamic World, Qur'an, Sura 100

• Culture

  Muslims, Abbasids

• Object Type

  Manuscripts