1965.53: Folio from a Qur'an: Sura 30: end 25 - mid 27 (recto), Sura 30: mid 27 - mid 28 (verso)

Identification and Creation

Object Number

1965.53

Title

Folio from a Qur'an: Sura 30: end 25 - mid 27 (recto), Sura 30: mid 27 - mid 28 (verso)

Classification

Manuscripts

Work Type

manuscript folio

Date

11th-12th century

Places

Creation Place: Middle East, Iran

Period

Seljuk-Atabeg period

Culture

Persian

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/215443

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper

Dimensions

folio: 26.5 x 19.7 cm (10 7/16 x 7 3/4 in.)

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Eric Schroeder, Cambridge, MA, (by 1965), gift; to Fogg Art Museum, 1965.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Gift of Eric Schroeder

Accession Year

1965

Object Number

1965.53

Division

Asian and Mediterranean Art

Contact

am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu

Permissions

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Publication History

• Arthur Upham Pope, Masterpieces of Persian Art, The Dryden Press (New York, 1945), p. 153, pl. 111

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, 11/16/2014 - 05/14/2015

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