id:			114190
accession number:	1933.440
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1933.440
updated:		2023-03-22 14:07:56.421000

Qur'an Manuscript Folio, 1200s-1300s. Southern Spain. Ink, gold, and color on parchment; sheet: 52.7 x 55.4 cm (20 3/4 x 21 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1933.440

title:				Qur'an Manuscript Folio
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creation date:			1200s-1300s
creation date earliest:		1200
creation date latest:		1399
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creditline:			Edward L. Whittemore Fund
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culture:	Southern Spain
technique:	ink, gold, and color on parchment
department:	Islamic Art
collection:	Islamic Art
type:		Manuscript
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measurements: Sheet: 52.7 x 55.4 cm (20 3/4 x 21 13/16 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Art: The International Language
	opening date:   1956-10-02T04:00:00
	<i>Art: The International Language</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).

	title:		Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World
	opening date:   1979-01-11T05:00:00
	<i>Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World</i>. Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (organizer) (January 11-March 11, 1979); The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (April 17-May 27, 1979); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (June 28-August 12, 1979); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (September 14-October 28, 1979).

	title:		Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation)
	opening date:   2019-10-29T04:00:00
	<i>Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* <em>The Heritage of Islam</em>. Houston, TX; San Francisco, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Washington, D.C. (March 10, 1982-September 5, 1983).

* <em>Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 116)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014).

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PROVENANCE

	(Mehmet Aga-Oglu [1896–1949], Ann Arbor, MI, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1933
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1933-
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This page from the “Chapter of Light” (24:59–61) in the Qur'an is written in the monumental script of Islamic Spain and North Africa, known as Maghribi Kufic. Words flow rhythmically with curving flourishes toward the left margin where letters end in almost perfect semicircles, an elegant hallmark that contrasts with the upright shafts. Distinctive markings—vowels in red and diacritics in blue—identify the vocalization of the text, which would have been read or recited aloud to an assembly.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. <em>Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.
	page number: 	Reproduced: pp. 110-111
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