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Qur'an in a leather satchel
West African
about 1830–1880 A.D./ 1245–1297 A.H.
Object Place: Northern Nigeria
Medium/Technique
Ink and color on paper; satchel, leather
Dimensions
Overall: 7.5 x 21 x 23.5 cm (2 15/16 x 8 1/4 x 9 1/4 in.)
Sheet: 22.9 x 16.8 cm (9 x 6 5/8 in.)
Sheet: 22.9 x 16.8 cm (9 x 6 5/8 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number15.132a-b
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAfrica and Oceania, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
DescriptionQur'an, 347 folios in stamped red leather cover, West African (or Sudani) script, 16 lines to a page, rubricated, with colored ornaments. European paper with "tres lunes" watermarks (some with faces). In ornamented leather satchel. Like other Northern Nigerian manuscripts, the folios are loose.
ProvenanceBy 1913, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; 1915, gift of Ross to the MFA. (Accession Date: January 7, 1915)