Folio from a Qur'an: Sura 4: 160 -161 (recto), Sura 4: 161-162 (verso), late 12th century-early 13th century
Series/Book Title: Qur'an
Manuscript Folio
Persian
, 12th-13th century
Seljuk-Atabeg period, AH 492-590 / AD 1038-1220s
Creation Place:
Iran
Ink, opaque watercolor and gold on paper
folio: 31.1 x 21.3 cm (12 1/4 x 8 3/8 in.)
Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Fund for the Acquisition of Islamic Art
, 1982.40
Department of Islamic & Later Indian Art
, Bibliography
Kristin A. Mortimer, Harvard University Art Museums: A Guide to the Collections, Harvard University Art Museums/Abbeville Press (Cambridge, MA, New York, NY, 1985), page 79/figure 83
Toby Lester, "What is the Koran?", The Atlantic Monthly, ed. Mr. William Whitworth (Boston, MA, January 1999), vol. 283, no. 1, pp.43-56, pp.51
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., Harvard Art Museum Handbook, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2008), p. 44
Toby Lester, "What is the Koran?", The Atlantic Monthly, ed. Mr. William Whitworth (Boston, MA, January 1999), vol. 283, no. 1, pp.43-56, pp.51
Stephan Wolohojian, ed., Harvard Art Museum Handbook, Harvard Art Museum (Cambridge, MA, 2008), p. 44
Exhibition History
Arabesque, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 12/01/1990 - 03/24/1991
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, New York, 10/07/2008 - 02/08/2009
Islamic Art: Drawings, Calligraphies and Objects, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, 06/29/1983 - 09/25/1983
Islamic Art: The Power of Pattern, Harvard University Art Museums, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, 09/23/1989 - 01/17/1990
Calligraphy and the Arts of the Book, Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, 11/25/1993 - 01/30/1994
Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an, Michael C. Carlos Museum of Art, Atlanta, 08/28/2010 - 12/05/2010