Section of a Qur'an

Unknown

13th century · Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper · Islamic Art

This manuscript is from the second volume of a luxurious Qur’an in which all 274 folios are elaborately illuminated. The text is written in a variation of thuluth script, with gold ink outlined in black and complemented by gold, red, and blue diacritical marks. Illuminated disks indicate verse endings and other denominations. In one of the folios a six-pointed star marks when the worshipper should perform a prostration. It reads sajda, or "prostration".

Artist

Unknown

Date

13th century

Medium

Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

Department

Islamic Art

Credit line

Fletcher Fund, 1924