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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1967.23
Title
Folio from a Qur'an: Sura 2: mid 229 - mid 231 (recto), Sura 2: 231- begin 233 (verso)
Other Titles
Alternate Title: Blue Qur'an
Classification
Manuscripts
Work Type
manuscript folio
Date
9th century
Places
Creation Place: Middle East, Iraq?
Period
Abbasid period
Culture
Arab
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/201790

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ink, color, gold and silver on parchment dyed blue
Dimensions
H. 28.73 x W. 37.62 cm (11 5/16 x 14 13/16 in.)
framed: H. 43.7 x W. 57.5 cm (17 3/16 x 22 5/8 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History
Private collection.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Francis H. Burr Memorial Fund
Accession Year
1967
Object Number
1967.23
Division
Asian and Mediterranean Art
Contact
am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
Permissions

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Publication History

  • Annemarie Schimmel, "Poetry and Calligraphy: Thoughts about their Interrelation in Persian Culture", ed. Richard Ettinghausen, Westview Press, Inc. (Colorado, 1979), p. 176, fig. 109
  • Anthony Welch, Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, University of Tennessee Press (Austin, TX, 1979), page 15, 48-49/figure 4
  • Kristin A. Mortimer and William G. Klingelhofer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums and Abbeville Press (Cambridge and New York, 1986), page 78/figure 82
  • Jonathan Bloom, "Riggisberger Berichte", Islamische Textilkunst des Mittelalters: Aktuelle Probleme, Abegg-Stiftung (Switzerland, 1997), page 21/figure 3
  • Jonathan Bloom and Sheila Blair, Islamic Arts, Phaidon Press (New York, NY, 1997), p 73 - 75, fig. 37
  • Karel Otavsky, Islamische Textilkunst des Mittelalters: Aktuelle Probleme, Abegg-Stiftung (Riggisberg, 1997), fig. 3, pg. 21, b/w
  • Laurie Adams, Art Across Time, Volume I: Prehistory to the Fourteenth Century, McGraw-Hill College (London, England, 1999), p. 322, fig. 10.2
  • Laurie Adams, Art Across Time: Second Edition, McGraw-Hill (New York, 2002), p 328/fig.9.2
  • Hans Belting, Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science (Fireca i Bagdad: Zapadno-istocna povijest pogleda), Verlag C.H. Beck (Munich, Germany, 2008), p. 76, ill.
  • Hans Belting, Florenz und Bagdad: Eine westösliche Geschichte des Blicks, Verlag C.H. Beck (Munich, 2008)
  • Laurie Adams, Art Across Time, McGraw-Hill (New York, NY, 2011), p. 308, fig. 9.2
  • Hans Belting, Florence and Baghdad: Renaissance Art and Arab Science, Belknap Press (Cambridge, MA, 2011), p. 70, fig. 22
  • Mary McWilliams and Jochen Sokoly, Social Fabrics: Inscribed Textiles from Medieval Egyptian Tombs, exh. cat. (Cambridge, MA, February 22, 2022), p. 85, figs. 1-2

Exhibition History

  • Islamic Art From the Collections of the Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 08/01/1974
  • Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, Asia House, 01/11/1979 - 03/11/1979; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, 04/17/1979 - 05/27/1979; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, 06/28/1979 - 08/12/1979; Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, 09/14/1979 - 10/28/1979
  • Islamic Art and the Written Word, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 10/05/1983 - 11/27/1983
  • Geometry of the Spirit: Islamic Illumination and Calligraphy, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 04/30/1988 - 06/26/1988
  • The Continuous Stroke of a Breath: Calligraphy from the Islamic World, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 12/20/2003 - 07/18/2004
  • 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/16/2014 - 05/14/2015
  • Caravans of Gold, Fragments in Time: Art, Culture, and Exchange across Medieval Saharan Africa, National Museum of African Art, 07/16/2021 - 02/27/2022

Subjects and Contexts

  • Google Art Project

Verification Level

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