id:			124009
accession number:	1944.495
share license status:	CC0
url:			https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.495
updated:		2025-05-08 11:22:00.256000

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
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creation date:			1460–1500
creation date earliest:		1460
creation date latest:		1500
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creditline:			Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund
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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
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measurements: Overall: 36 x 81.6 cm (14 3/16 x 32 1/8 in.)
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Islamic Art
	opening date:   1944-11-03T04:00:00
	<i>Islamic Art</i>. 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
	<i>Art: The International Language</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

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PROVENANCE

	(Mrs. Kirkor [Antoinette] Minassian [1874-1961], New York, NY, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: ?-1944
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
	date: 1944-
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	<em>Islamic Art: Selected Examples from the Loan Exhibition of Islamic Art at the Cleveland Museum of Art.</em> [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. <em>The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook.</em> 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969</em>. 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. <em>Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978</em>. 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. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.
	page number: 	Mentioned and reproduced: P. 228
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