Two pages from an illuminated Qur'an manuscript

about 900–905

Object PlaceIran

Medium/TechniqueInk, color and gold on parchment

DimensionsHeight x width: 12.2 × 9.1 cm (4 13/16 × 3 9/16 in.)

Credit LineDenman Waldo Ross Collection

Accession number19.779.1-2

On View

Not on view

ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts

Collections

InscriptionsSura 70 [al-Maʻārij, "The Stairways"], vv. 5-20 Sura 71 [Nūḥ, "Noah"]], vv. 28 to Sura 72 [Al-Jinn, "The Jinn"], v. 4 Sura 74 [al-Muddathir, "Shrouded"], vv. 54 to Sura 75 [al-Q̈iyamah, "The Resurrection"], v. 10 Sura 75 [al-Q̈iyamah, "The Resurrection"], v. 28 to Sura 76 [al-ʾInsān, "Man"], v. 1

Provenance1919, gift of Denman Waldo Ross (b. 1853 - d. 1935), Cambridge, MA, to the MFA (Accession date: September 11, 1919)