Folio from a Qur’an, sura 1:5-7; sura 2:1-8
Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Qur’an; left-hand half of a double-page frontispiece; separate from the facing folio S1986.84.1; recto: Sura al-Fatiha (the Opener)1: part of 5-7, recto begins with “nasta’in”; verso: Sarlawh, Sura al-Baqara (the Cow) 2:1-7 and part of 8; verso begins with “al-Baqara”; Arabic in white, gold and black thuluth and muhaqqaq script; vocalized in white, gold and black with red letters for recitation and reading; one column; 9 lines of text; one of a group of two folios.
Border: The text is set in an illuminated border.
- Provenance
- Provenance information is currently unavailable
- Previous Owner(s)
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Henri Vever 1854 - 1942
Francois Mautin French, born 1907
- Description
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Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Qur'an; left-hand half of a double-page frontispiece; separate from the facing folio S1986.84.1; recto: Sura al-Fatiha (the Opener)1: part of 5-7, recto begins with "nasta'in"; verso: Sarlawh, Sura al-Baqara (the Cow) 2:1-7 and part of 8; verso begins with "al-Baqara"; Arabic in white, gold and black thuluth and muhaqqaq script; vocalized in white, gold and black with red letters for recitation and reading; one column; 9 lines of text; one of a group of two folios.
Border: The 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. 10, p. 20.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
- Rights Statement
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Copyright with museum
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