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A rare and finely decorated Qur'an leaf in eastern Kufic script by 
																	 Persian School

Persian School

( Persian, )

A rare and finely decorated Qur'an leaf in eastern Kufic script

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Materials:

Arabic manuscript on buff paper

Measurements:

12.56 in. (31.90 cm.) (height) by 9.37 in. (23.80 cm.) (width)

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Provenance:

Fragments of only three sections of this Qur'an survive: juz' 6, juz' 14 and juz' 16. All those in Western collections are from surahs IV and V in juz' 6. The folios in both the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington D.C. and the Cleveland Museum of Art were acquired in 1939, possibly from Kirkor Minassian, who supplied many of the institutional collections in the USA with rare books, manuscripts and calligraphy in the 1920s and 1930s. Many of the Near Eastern manuscripts and cuneiform tablets in the Library of Congress in Washington D.C. were acquired from Minassian in the 1930s.

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