- Provenance
- Provenance research underway.
- Description
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Detached folio from a Qur'an; recto: Sura al-Muddaththir (the Cloaked one), sura 74: part of 31,32-56, Sura al-Qiyama (the Resurrection), sura 75:1 and part of 2, recto begins with "yashawu", one column, 15 lines of text; verso: sura 75:2-38, verso begins with "al-lawama", one column, 15 lines of text; Arabic in black, blue, white and gold naskh and muhaqqaq scripts, sura headings in white and gold thuluth script, vocalized in black with red letters for reading and recitation, marginal medallion and inscription; one of a group of twenty folios.
Border: Text is set in gold, red, blue and purple rulings on cream-colored paper with marginal medallions.
- Inscription(s)
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Recto: bottom left: waqf (endowment)
- Published References
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- Edwin Binney 3rd. Turkish Treasures from the Collection of Edwin Binney, 3rd: 1981 Supplement to the 1979 Catalogue. San Diego. cat. 61a, p. 2.
- 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. 21, p. 22.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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