- Provenance
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To 1930
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston to 1930 [1]From 1930
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 1930 [2]Notes:
[1] Object file, undated folder sheet note. See also Freer Gallery of Art Purchase List file, Collections Management Office.
[2] See note 1.
- Previous Owner(s) and Custodian(s)
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Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Founded 1870
- Description
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Detached folio from a dispersed copy of the Qur'an; recto: Sura al-Fath (Victory) 48:5, recto begins with "liyudkhal"; verso: sura 48: parts of 5, 6, verso begins with "dhalika"; Arabic in black kufic script; illuminated leaf-shaped medallion verse marker; vocalized in red, yellow, green, and blue; one column; 7 lines of text; one of a group of 13.
- Published References
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- Oya Pancaroglu. Perpetual Glory: Medieval Islamic Ceramics from the Harvey B. Plotnick Collection. Exh. cat. Chicago and New Haven, March 31 - October 28, 2007. p. 23, fig. 13.
- Collection Area(s)
- Arts of the Islamic World
- Web Resources
- Google Cultural Institute
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