id: 124009 accession number: 1944.495 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.495 updated: Bookbinding for a Qur'an, 1460–1500. Turkey, Istanbul, Ottoman period, 15th century. Leather over paper pasteboards; outer cover tooled, blue paint; inner covers openwork designs over colored papers; overall: 36 x 81.6 cm (14 3/16 x 32 1/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund 1944.495 title: Bookbinding for a Qur'an title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1460–1500 creation date earliest: 1460 creation date latest: 1500 current location: creditline: Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund copyright: --- culture: Turkey, Istanbul, Ottoman period, 15th century technique: leather over paper pasteboards; outer cover tooled, blue paint; inner covers openwork designs over colored papers department: Islamic Art collection: Islamic Art type: Book Binding find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS --- measurements: Overall: 36 x 81.6 cm (14 3/16 x 32 1/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Islamic Art opening date: 1944-11-03T04:00:00 Islamic Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (November 3, 1944-February 2, 1945). title: Art: The International Language opening date: 1956-10-02T04:00:00 Art: The International Language. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE (Mrs. Kirkor [Antoinette] Minassian [1874-1961], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art) date: ?-1944 footnotes: citations: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH date: 1944- footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: Islamic book covers generally have a triangular flap attached to the rear cover of the binding which is tucked under the front cover to protect the outside edge of the pages. The outer covers of this particularly elaborate example feature panels with Qur'anic inscriptions, interlace patterns, and a central medallion filled with floral and arabesque designs. The inner covers offer a superb example of leather openwork, a leather technique that originated in northeastern Iran in the 1400s. --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Islamic Art: Selected Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. page number: Reproduced: p. 40 url: https://archive.org/details/IslamicArtCMA/page/n50 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 721 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n132 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 224 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n248 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 224 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n248 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 282 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n302 Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 228 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.495/1944.495_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.495/1944.495_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.495/1944.495_full.tif