Archives: Exhibitions

Detail, Mosque lamp; Mamluk period, ca. 1360; Glass, enameled and gilded; Egypt; Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment; Freer Gallery of Art F1957.19

Detail, Fragment of a Qur'an, sura 2:191-233; Manuscript; Abbasid period, 9th-10th century; Ink, color and gold on parchment; North Africa or Near East; Purchase — Charles Lang Freer Endowment; Freer Gallery of Art; F1937.6.1-33

Detail, Frontispiece of a single-volume Qur’an; Historic Iran, present-day Afghanistan, Herat, Safavid period, January 1576 (AH Shawwal 983); Ink, color, and gold on paper; Transferred from the Çarşamba Mehmed Ağa Mosque to the Museum on January 1, 1914; Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, TIEM 211

Detail, Single-volume Qur’an; Probably Turkey, Edirne, 1457–58 (AH 862); Ink, color, and gold on paper; Transferred from the library of the Hagia Sophia to the Museum in 1914; Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, TIEM 30

Detail, Sections of a thirty-part Qur’an; Copied by Ali al-Husayni; Iraq, Mosul, Il-Khanid period, November 1310 (AH Rajab 710); Gold, color, and ink on paper; Transferred from the mosque of Rüstem Pasha to the Museum on January 13, 1914; Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, TIEM 540

Detail, Qur’an folios; Near East, Abbasid period, late 9th–early 10th century; Ink, gold, and color on parchment; Transferred from the Damascus Umayyad Mosque to Topkapı Palace in 1911 and to the Museum in 1913; Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, ŞE 611

Detail, Single-volume Qur’an; Probably Turkey, Edirne, 1457–58 (AH 862); Ink, color, and gold on paper; Transferred from the library of the Hagia Sophia to the Museum in 1914; Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, TIEM 30

Detail, Single-volume Qur’an; Copied by Yaqut al-Musta‘simi Iraq, Baghdad, Il-Khanid period, 1286–87; Ink, color, and gold on paper; Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts, Istanbul, TIEM 507.