Finispiece from a Qur'an, recto: text: sura 113:1-5, sura 114:1-6; verso: text: right-hand half of a double-page finispiece

Object Details

• Description

  Detached bifolio from a Qur'an; recto: Sura al-Falaq (the Daybreak) 113:1-5, Sura al-Nas (the Mankind) 114:1-6, recto begins with "bismillah"; verso: right-hand half of a double-page finispiece, detached from the facing folio (S1986.73.2); prayers and pious tracts following the last sura of the Qur'an, "al-du'a ba'd khatm al-Qur'an" (prayers after complete recitation of the Qur'an), verso begins with "al- du'a"; Arabic in black, white, blue and gold naskh and muhaqqaq scripts; headings in gold and blue muhaqqaq script and white thuluth script; vocalized in black; inscription; one column; 11 lines of text; one of a group of twenty folios.

  Border: The recto is set in gold, red and blue rulings on cream-colored paper with marginal medallions; the verso is set in an illuminated border.

• Inscriptions

  Recto: waqf (endowment)

• Provenance

  To 1910

  Georges Demotte (1877-1923), Paris, France. [1]

  From 1910 to 1942

  Henri Vever (1854-1942), Paris and Noyers, France, purchased from Georges Demotte, Paris, France on

  August 1, 1910. [2]

  From 1942 to 1986

  Family member, Paris and Boulogne, France, by inheritance from Henri Vever, Paris and Noyers, France. [3]

  From 1986

  Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, purchased from a family member, Paris and Boulogne, France. [4]

  Notes:

  [1] See Glen D. Lowry and Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 2: Ledger of Acquisitions, 1894 and 1907-17" in A Jeweler’s Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 230. See also Susan Nemazee, "Appendix 7: Chart of Recent Provenance" in An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection, Glenn D. Lowry et al (Washington, DC: Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1988), p. 400.

  [2] See note 1.

  [3] See the Agreement for the Purchase and Sale of the Henri Vever Collection of January 9, 1986, Collections Management Office.

  [4] See note 3.

• Collection

  Arthur M. Sackler Collection

• Exhibition History

  The Divine Word of Islam (July 4, 1993 to January 2, 1994)

  Variations on a Script: Islamic Calligraphy from the Vever Collection (February 18 to September 16, 1990)

  A Jeweler's Eye: Islamic Arts of the Book from the Vever Collection (November 20, 1988 to April 30, 1989)

• Previous custodian or owner

  Henri Vever (1854-1942)

  Georges Demotte (1877-1923)

  François Mautin (1907-2003)

• Origin

  Turkey

• Credit Line

  Purchase — Smithsonian Unrestricted Trust Funds, Smithsonian Collections Acquisition Program, and Dr. Arthur M. Sackler

• Type

  Manuscript

• Restrictions and Rights

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• Related Resources

  collections.si.edu

• Date

  1600s, 1550s

• Name

  Mautin, Francois Albert, Demotte, Georges, Vever, Henri

• Topic

  Art, Henri Vever collection, Ottoman period (1307 - 1922), Arts of the Islamic World, Illumination, Qur'an, Sura 114, Sura 113, Prayer

• Culture

  Muslims, Turks

• Object Type

  Manuscripts