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Gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins.

Bifolium from a Qur'an manuscript

Gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins.
Gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins.
Contact us at copyright@samuseum.org for rights and reproduction of this image. Photography by Ansen Seale.

Bifolium from a Qur'an manuscript

Place made:Iran
General region:Asia
Date: 14th century
Dimensions:
9 3/4 x 13 1/2 in. (24.8 x 34.3 cm)
Credit Line: Gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins
Object number: 96.1.108
Provenance: with Frances Semaan Wilkins (1916-1999) and Frederick J. Wilkins (1916-2004), San Antonio, by 1994; Frances Semaan Wilkins and Frederick Wilkins, by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1996
Label Text
Muhaqqa means "meticulously produced", and it is a popular script for Korans even today. These folio pages mention Moses and the punishment of Pharaoh on Judgment Day. (G. D. Scott, III, 1994)
Not on view
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