- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Detached bifolio from a Qur'an; recto: left-hand half of a double-page frontispiece, detached from the facing folio (S1986.77.1), Sura al-Fatiha (the Opener), sura 1:5-7, recto begins with "iyaka"; verso: Sura al-Baqara (the Cow), sura 2:1-9 and part of 10, verso begins with "bismillah"; Arabic in white muhaqqaq script; vocalized in white; one of a group of twenty folios.
Border: Text is set in an illuminated border.
- Published References
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- Glenn D. Lowry, Milo Cleveland Beach, Elisabeth West FitzHugh, Susan Nemanzee, Janet Snyder. An Annotated and Illustrated Checklist of the Vever Collection. Washington and Seattle. cat. 14, p. 22.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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