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Collections

Page from a Manuscript of the Qur'an (7:12-13; 7:13-14)9th century

Not on view
Manuscript leaf with five lines of large-scale Kufic Arabic script in golden-brown ink on cream parchment, with small red diacritical dots
Manuscript leaf with large-scale Kufic Arabic calligraphy in dark brown ink on cream parchment, with small red diacritical dots scattered throughout; bold angular letterforms with characteristic horizontal extensions.
Title
Page from a Manuscript of the Qur'an (7:12-13; 7:13-14)
Place Made
Probably Iraq
Date Made
9th century
Medium
Ink and colors on parchment
Dimensions
Folio, overall: 11 1/2 × 15 11/16 × 7 1/8 × 11 in. (29.21 × 39.85 × 18.1 × 27.94 cm) Textblock: 7 1/8 × 11 in. (18.1 × 27.94 cm) Frame: 23 × 19 × 1 1/2 in. (58.42 × 48.26 × 3.81 cm)
Credit Line
The Madina Collection of Islamic Art, gift of Camilla Chandler Frost
Accession Number
M.2002.1.24
Classification
Manuscripts
Collecting Area
Art of the Middle East: Islamic
Curatorial Notes

Given the grand scale of this folio, which contains just five lines of text, the manuscript from which it is derived must have been quite substantial. The boldly beautiful Kufic writing is more than a match for the large format, while the horizontal extension of certain letters and select emphasis on some vertical elements perfectly complement the shape of the parchment page. As in other contemporaneous manuscripts of the Qur’an (see M.73.5.499), there are no diacritical marks, but vowels are indicated by red points.

Selected Bibliography

  • Lo Terrenal y lo Divino: Arte Islámico siglos VII al XIX Colección del Museo de Arte del Condado de Los Ángeles. Santiago: Centro Cultural La Moneda, 2015.

  • Komaroff, Linda. Beauty and Identity: Islamic Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.
  • Komaroff, Linda. Collecting Islamic Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art: A Curatorial Perspective. Los Angeles: Art Catalogues; LACMA, 2017.