Qur'an

Object Details

• Calligrapher

  Muhammad ibn Ahmad ibn Kamal ibn Yahya al-Ansari al-Mutatabbib

• Description

  Manuscript; Qur'an; Arabic in black naskh script, headings in white kufic script, illuminated chapter headings in muhaqqaq script; vocalized in black and red; 226 folios with one illuminated frontispiece (fol. 1 verso-2 recto), 2 illuminated double-page composition (fols. 2 verso, 3 recto- fols. 221 verso, 222 recto), a double-page finispiece (fols. 222 verso, 223 recto), a colophon (fol. 223 verso), gold rosette verse markers, marginal medallions, marginal roundels; standard page: one column, 13 lines of text.

  Binding: The manuscript with an envelope flap is bound in red leather over paper pasteboards with blind tooling.

• Inscriptions

  Colophon: folio 223 verso

• Provenance

  Mr. Cledgeman [1]

  To 1999

  Mrs. Susanne K. Bennet, Washington, DC, to 1999

  From 1999

  Freer Gallery of Art, given by Mrs. Susanne K. Bennet in 1999

  Notes:

  [1] This object was formerly owned by Mr. Cledgeman, the donor's father (according to Curatorial Note 2, Massumeh Farhad, October 3, 1999, in the object record).

• Collection

  Freer Gallery of Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Mrs. Susanne K. Bennet (born 1938)

• Origin

  Cairo, Egypt

• Credit Line

  Gift of Susanne K. Bennet

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Date

  1300s

• Name

  Bennet, Susanne K.

• Place

  Cairo, Egypt

• Topic

  Kufic script, Art, Mamluk period (1250 - 1517), Arts of the Islamic World, Qur'an

• Culture

  Muslims

• Language

  Naskh script, Muhaqqaq script

• Object Type

  Manuscripts