H x W (overall): 20.8 x 32 cm (8 3/16 x 12 5/8 in)
Type:
Manuscript
Origin:
North Africa or Near East
Date:
9th-10th century
Period:
Abbasid period
Description:
Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Qur'an; illuminated folio with a palmette projecting into the margin; reverse: Sura al-Tawbah (Repentance) 9:100; Arabic in black kufic script; vocalized in red; one column; 7 lines of text.
Provenance:
To 1932
Hagop Kevorkian (1872-1962), New York to 1932 [1]
From 1932
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Hagop Kevorkian, New York in 1932 [2]
Notes:
[1] See undated folder sheet note, object file, Collections Management Office. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List after 1920, Collections Management Office.
[2] See note 1.
Collection:
Freer Gallery of Art Collection
Exhibition History:
Arts of the Islamic World (May 3, 1998 to January 3, 2016)
Art of the Near East (August 21, 1977 to December 14, 1979)
Art of the Arab World (May 8, 1975 to August 20, 1977)
Near Eastern Art--Calligraphy (August 18, 1967 to February 10, 1972)
Near Eastern Art (January 1, 1963 to August 18, 1967)
Untitled Exhibition, Persian and Near Eastern Art (May 5, 1933 to September 24, 1947)
Ausstellung von Meisterwerken Mohammedanischer Kunst in München (May to October 1910)
