1919.158: Folio from a Qur'an: Sura 17: mid 64 - end 73 (recto), Sura 17: mid 73 - end 85 (verso)
Manuscripts
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Identification and Creation
- Object Number
- 1919.158
- Title
- Folio from a Qur'an: Sura 17: mid 64 - end 73 (recto), Sura 17: mid 73 - end 85 (verso)
- Other Titles
- Series/Book Title: Qur'an
- Classification
- Manuscripts
- Work Type
- manuscript folio
- Date
- 9th century
- Places
- Creation Place: Middle East
- Period
- Abbasid period
- Culture
- Arab
- Persistent Link
- https://hvrd.art/o/215216
Physical Descriptions
- Medium
- Calligraphy, ink and gold on parchment
- Dimensions
- folio: 23.5 x 30.7 cm (9 1/4 x 12 1/16 in.)
Acquisition and Rights
- Credit Line
- Harvard Art Museums/Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Bequest of Hervey E. Wetzel
- Accession Year
- 1919
- Object Number
- 1919.158
- Division
- Asian and Mediterranean Art
- Contact
- am_asianmediterranean@harvard.edu
- Permissions
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Publication History
- Wilson Bishai, Humanities in the Arabic-Islamic World, W.C. Brown Co. (Dubuque, Iowa, 1973), Pg. 94
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, 11/07/2018 - 04/17/2019
Verification Level
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