Detail, Single-volume Qur’an; Egypt, Cairo, Mamluk period, ca. 1481–96; Ink, color, and gold on paper; Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, TIEM 508
Archives: Exhibitions
Detail, Single-volume Qur’an; Attributed to Abdallah al-Sayrafi; Iran, probably Tabriz, Il-Khanid period, ca. 1330; Ink, color, and gold on paper; Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, TIEM 487
Detail, Folio from a Qur’an; sura 45:9–13; attributed to Omar Aqta‘; historic Iran, present-day Uzbekistan, probably Samarqand, Timurid period, ca. 1400; ink, color, and gold on paper; lent by the Art and History Collection, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, LTS1995.2.16.1
Detail, Pair of panels from a cenotaph cover; Cover; Ottoman period, 17th-18th century; Silk-satin, lampas weave; Turkey; Purchase; Arthur M. Sackler Gallery S1996.62.1-2
Detail, Qur'an; Manuscript; Calligrapher: Ahmad Sayri; Safavid period, 1598 (1006 A.H.); Ink, color and gold on paper; Iran; Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment; Freer Gallery of Art F1932.65