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Right-half of an illuminated frontispiece from a Qur'an manuscript
Mamluk period
14th century
Object Place: Egypt or Syria
Medium/Technique
Opaque pigments and gold on paper
Dimensions
Height x width: 63.5 × 35 cm (25 × 13 3/4 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number06.130
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAsia, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
DescriptionSingle folio from a dispersed copy of the Qur'an; right-hand half of a double-page frontispiece; stylized calligraphy in ornamental new style (eastern kufic) script in the upper and lower cartouches; geometric and vegetal illumination
InscriptionsUpper panel: Innahu li-Qurʾān karīm ("Surely it is the Noble Qur'an")
Lower panel: fī kitāb maknūn ("in a Well-Preserved Book")
Lower panel: fī kitāb maknūn ("in a Well-Preserved Book")