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Four pages from an illuminated Qur'an manuscript
12th–14th century
Object Place: Southern Spain or Morocco
Medium/Technique
Ink, color, and gold on parchment
Dimensions
Height x width (Each bifolio, overall): 16.8 × 31 cm (6 5/8 × 12 3/16 in.)
Credit Line
Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number09.333.1-2
NOT ON VIEW
CollectionsAfrica and Oceania, Islamic Art
ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts
DescriptionTwo bifolia from a dispersed copy of the Qur'an; 7 lines of Arabic calligraphy in brown Maghribi script on the recto and verso; green and blue diacritical and vocalization marks; verse markers, illuminated knots and teardrops with blue and red pigment.
InscriptionsSura 5 [al-Māʾidah, "The Table" ] vv. 39-52
ProvenanceBy 1909, Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 – d. 1935), Cambridge, MA; gift of Denman Waldo Ross to the MFA.