1919.157.1: Folio from a Qur'an: Sura 28: begin 85 - mid 86 (recto), Sura 28: mid 86 - end 87 (verso), left-hand side of a bifolio
Manuscripts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1919.157.1
- Title
- Folio from a Qur'an: Sura 28: begin 85 - mid 86 (recto), Sura 28: mid 86 - end 87 (verso), left-hand side of a bifolio
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript folio
- Date
- 13th-14th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Africa, North Africa
- Culture
- Arab
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215215
Location
- Location
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Level 3, Room 3610, University Teaching Gallery
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Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on parchment
- Dimensions
- folio: 20.2 x 25.1 cm (7 15/16 x 9 7/8 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Hervey E. Wetzel
- Accession Year
- 1919
- Object Number
- 1919.157.1
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Exhibition History
- Islamic Art: Drawings, Calligraphies and Objects, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/29/1983 - 09/25/1983
- Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an , The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, 11/03/2007 - 02/03/2008; Asia Society Museum, New York, 10/07/2008 - 02/08/2009; Michael C. Carlos Museum of Art, Atlanta, 08/28/2010 - 12/05/2010
- 32Q: 2550 Islamic, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/03/2015 - 04/26/2016
- The Art of Looking: 150 Years of Art History at Harvard, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, 01/25/2025 - 05/11/2025
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