Folio from the Qur'an - Chester Beatty's Digital Collections

Object Information

Description

Object no:: Is 1406

Title:: Folio from the Qur'an

Artist and production place:: Unknown
Iraq (possibly)

Production date:: c. 900

Dimensions:: 225 mm x 306 mm x 12 mm (height x width x depth)

Material:: Parchment (material) Pigment (material) Gold pigment

Collection:: Islamic Collection

Document type:: Manuscript

Object name:: Codex

Description:: Folio from the Qur'an. Single folio mounted in modern binding, pigment and gold on parchment, horizontal panel of illumination, with eight-pointed star roundel within the panel and palmette hasp ornament projecting on the left, possibly Iraq, c. 900.

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