Left Side of a Double-page Illumination

Description Provenance Credit

Description This folio from Walters manuscript W.563 is the left side of a double-page illumination introducing the Qur'an.

Provenance Sultan 'Uthman Khan [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [erased bequest (waqf) statement and stamp on fol. 3a]; Sultan Bayezid II [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [seal on fol. 8a]; Dikran Kelekian, New York and Paris [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date of acquisition unknown] by purchase; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.

Credit Acquired by Henry Walters

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Creator

Indian (Artist)

Period

9th century AH/AD 15th century (Timurid)

Medium

ink and pigments on thin laid paper
(Manuscripts & Rare Books)

Accession Number

W.563.8A

Measurements

H: 15 3/4 x W: 12 3/16 in. (40 x 31 cm)

Geographies

India (Place of Origin)

Location Within Museum

Not On View

Double-page Illuminated Frontispiece	Title
9th century AH/AD 15th century (Timurid)	Period
W.563.7B	Accession
discoveries602	Tags

Double-page Illuminated Frontispiece	Title
9th century AH/AD 15th century (Timurid)	Period
W.563.5B	Accession
45	Tags

Double-page Illuminated Incipit	Title
9th century AH/15th century AD (Timurid)	Period
W.563.8B	Accession

Qur'an	Title
15th century (Timurid)	Period
W.563	Accession
quran, spanningempires	Tags

Binding from Qur'an	Title
9th century AH/AD 15th century (Timurid)	Period
W.563.binding	Accession

Illuminated Frontispiece	Title
9th century AH/AD 15th century (Timurid)	Period
W.563.3A	Accession

Letters of the Alphabet with Explanations	Title
9th century AH/AD 15th century (Timurid)	Period
W.563.2A	Accession

Left Side of a Double-page Illumination Introducing Surat al-fatihah	Title
15th century (Timurid)	Period
W.563.9A	Accession