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Page from the Koran
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Artist Unknown (Egypt)
Date

c. 1350
Institution Minneapolis Institute of Arts
Location On view at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, G243
Page from the Koran, Artist Unknown (Egypt)
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This exquisite manuscript page bearing text from chapter 37 as well as the title and text from chapter 38 of the Koran typifies the artistic and technical virtuosity accorded illuminated books during the Mamluk period (1250-1517). Sultans and amirs commissioned mostly large Korans for the specific mosques and religious foundations they endowed. Multi-volume Korans were popular during the Mamluk period, when standard formats included large single volumes, double volumes, and smaller thirty-volume sets. The scribe, or calligrapher, enjoyed the greatest prestige among the several Muslim artists responsible for producing books. This page is written in a cursive style commonly called muhaqqaq script.
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Medium: Paintings, Painting | Ink, colors, and gold on paper
Size: 15 9/16 x 12 in. (39.53 x 30.48 cm) (image, sheet)
Creation Place: Egypt
Culture: Egypt
Style: 14th century, Mamluk dynasty
Physical Description: Text from Sura 37 and Title and Text from Sura 38. Four vertical paper pages with 12 lines of Neskhi writing to the regular page. Consonants, diacritical marks, vowels, reading marks in black, only the words 'Glory be to the Lord' or just 'Glory', 'God' in gold. The page (with decorative chapter heading) starts with the Sura 37 verse 177 and ends at verse 6 of Sura 38. The chapter heading says 'Sura Sad(which is a letter of the alphabet, and the character with which the actual sura starts) eighty-six verses of Mekkan origin'. The first of the predeeding page starts wit Sura 37, verse 99 and the text is continuous. On the second page a dectorarive marginal disc indicates the begining of a section for the daily reading portion. The decorative frontispiece and four leaves with chapter headings are in the Freer Gallery of Art (30.55-59).
Credit: Collection Minneapolis Institute of Arts; Bequest of Mrs. Margaret McMillan Webber in memory of her mother, Katherine Kittredge McMillan
Accession Number: 51.37.21
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Added to Site: February 28, 2009
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