- Title
- Page from a Manuscript of the Qur'an (30:27-33; 30:33-40)
- Date Made
- AD 1561–62 / AH 969
- Medium
- Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
- Dimensions
- 21 × 14 3/4 in. (53.34 × 37.47 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.85.237.73
- Collecting Area
- Art of the Middle East: Islamic
- Curatorial Notes
This page appears to come from a now dispersed manuscript of the Qur’an, dated AD 1561–62 and signed by the scribe Abu’l-Hasan al-‘Usayli al-Hanafi. Although Egypt had fallen to the Ottomans in 1517, the beautifully rendered script (a hybrid between rayhani and muhaqqaq), the large format of the page, and the highly polished off-white paper all hark back to the preceding period of Mamluk rule, to which belong some of the finest manuscripts of the Qur’an ever produced.
- Selected Bibliography
Fine Oriental Miniatures, Manuscripts, Islamic Works of Art, and 19th Century Paintings (Sale 4264). New York: Sotheby Parke Bernet, 1979.
- Ancient and Islamic Art. New York: Habib Anavian Galleries Ltd., 1979.
- Komaroff, Linda. Beauty and Identity: Islamic Art from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 2016.
