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Illuminated Text Page with Verses from Chapter 2   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Iran)Unknown author
Title
Illuminated Text Page with Verses from Chapter 2
Description
English: This folio from Walters manuscript W.557 is a text page from chapter 2 (Surat al-baqarah). The name of Allah is illuminated in gold, as it is throughout the manuscript. Verses are separated by an illuminated teardrop form.
Date 6th century AH/AD 12th century
Medium ink and pigments on laid paper with chain lines that appear to be grouped in twos
Dimensions height: 34.5 cm (13.5 in); width: 20.5 cm (8 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,34.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,20.5U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
W.557.7B
Place of creation Iran
Object history
  • Sultan 'Uthman Khan ibn Mustafá Khan (reigned 1168 AH/AD 1754-1171 AH/AD 1757) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Erased seal of Sultan 'Uthman Khan ibn Mustafá Khan and a waqf inscription by Ibrahim Hanif and his seal (fol. 1a)]
  • Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1897 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Inscription in pencil: H(enry) W(alters) May 1897 direct from Constantinople (front flyleaf ia)]
  • 1931: bequeathed to Walters Art Museum by Henry Walters
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters, 1897
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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