Folio from a Qur’an Manuscript
Folio from a Qur’an Manuscript
Place of OriginIran
Date11th Century
DimensionsH: 10 1/2 in. (26.5 cm); W: 7 7/8 in. (19.9 cm)
MediumInk and color on parchment with gold highlights.
ClassificationManuscripts
Credit LineMuseum Purchase
Object number
1926.131
Not on View
DescriptionDetached folio from a Qur'an, Surah Al-Ana'm, (6:6-7)
Published ReferencesPope, Arthur Upham, An Introduction to Persian Art, London, 1930, p. 103, repr. fig. 43.Exhibition HistoryLondon, Royal Academy, International Exhibition of Persian Art, 1931.
San Francisco, M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Exhibition of Islamic Art, 1937, no. 12, repr.
New York, The Iranian Institute, Exhibition of Persian Art, 1940, p. 263, 2nd ed., May 1940, p. 245.
Ann Arbor, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Persian Art Before and After the Mongol Conquest, 1959, no. 114.
9th Century (Abbasid Period)
early 9th Century
9th Century (Abbasid Period)
11th Century
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