Leather-bound duodecimo manuscript in Rayhani script
Historic place made:Ottoman Empire
Culture: Ottoman
Date: A.D. 1711 (AH 1123)
Dimensions:
h. 7 1/2 in. (19.1 cm); w. 5 in. (12.7 cm)
Credit Line: San Antonio Museum of Art, gift of Frances and Frederick Wilkins
Object number: 96.1.118
Inscribed: Colophon: "This work has been completed by the hand of the poor servant Omar, one of the students of Suleiman, Effendi, in the year 1123."
Provenance: Frances Semaan Wilkins (1916-1999) and Frederick J. Wilkins (1916-2004), San Antonio, by 1994; Frances Semaan Wilkins and Frederick J. Wilkins, by gift to the San Antonio Museum of Art, 1996
Label Text
This religious text is executed in Rayhani script. The colophon reads, "This work has been completed by the hand of the poor servant Omar, one of the students of Suleiman, Effendi, in the year 1123." The gold design on the flap of the binding is painted, while the border is stamped. Common in Near Eastern art is the arabesque design, gilded and painted with attention to fine detail.
[G. D. Scott, III, 1994]
[G. D. Scott, III, 1994]
Not on view
In Collection(s)
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