Detached folio from a Qur'an, sura 7:7-11; sura 7:32-34

Object Details

• Description

  Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Qur'an; right-hand half recto: Sura al-A'raf (the Heights) 7: part of verse 32 and verse 33, recto begins with "-niya khalisatun"; verso: sura 7:33 and part of 34, verso begins with "l-baghi"; left-hand half recto: part of verse 7 followed by verse 8 and 9, recto begins with "gha'ibin"; verso: sura: 7:9, 10 and part of 11, verso begins with "kanu"; Arabic in black "eastern kufic (New Style)" script; vowels in red, diacritics in black; one column; six lines of text.

• Provenance

  To 1968

  Adrienne Minassian, New York, to 1968 [1]

  From 1968 to 1997

  Ralph and Catherine Benkaim, Beverly Hills, CA, purchased from Adrienne Minassian in 1968 [2]

  From 1997

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, given by Ralph and Catherine Benkaim in 1997

  Notes:

  [1] According to Provenance Remark 1 in the object record.

  [2] See note 1.

• Collection

  National Museum of Asian Art Collection

• Previous custodian or owner

  Adrienne Minassian (1913-1994)

  Ralph and Catherine Benkaim

• Origin

  probably Egypt

• Credit Line

  Gift of Catherine and Ralph Benkaim

• Type

  Manuscript

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1200s, 1000s

• Name

  Minassian, Adrienne, Benkaim, Ralph and Catherine

• Place

  Egypt

• Topic

  Sura 7, Art, Catherine and Ralph Benkaim Collection, Writing, Arts of the Islamic World, Qur'an

• Culture

  Muslims

• Language

  Arabic language

• Object Type

  Manuscripts