Unidentified
Qur’an
1844-1854
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Unidentified
Qur’an
1844-1854
Physical Qualities
Paper, ink, pigment, leather, Book: 237 × 185 mm. (9 5/16 × 7 5/16 in.)
Credit Line
The Amy Gould/Matthew Polk Fund
Object Number
2024.367
472 loose leaves, 13 lines to the page written in Barnawi in black ink (with yellow and red), text divisions in margins in yellow/red, opening leaf with geometric pattern, 3 other panels within text. In tooled brown leather binding with flap and brown leather carrying case.
The Baltimore Museum of Art by purchase, 2024; Sotheby's, London, England, October 23, 2024, auction Arts of the Islamic World & India, lot 128; Kent Antiques, London by purchase, January 2024; Converse Auctions, Paoli, PA, January 5, 2024, Lot 0177; Private Collection, Philadelphia PA