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Quran
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Quran

Date1869 (Islamic calendar 1286)
Maker Turkish
Object number2022.40.1
ProvenancePurchased by Dorothy Wendler, Seattle, Washington, in Ankara, Turkey, between 1955-57; to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, 2022
Credit LineGift of Dorothy E. Wendler
Dimensions5 6/8 x 4 1/2 x 2 1/2 in. (14.6 x 11.4 x 6.4 cm)
MediumArabic manuscript on paper
Photo: Scott Leen
Folio from the dispersed "Blue Qur'an"
North African
9th century
Object number: 69.37
Photo: Paul Macapia
Qur'an page
Islamic
late 8th century
Object number: 47.100
Photo: Paul Macapia
Koran Leaf
Iranian
16th century
Object number: 33.1562
Photo: Paul Macapia
Koran Leaf
Persian
17th century
Object number: 33.1563
Photo: Elizabeth Mann
Koran Leaf
Persian
1625
Object number: 33.1564
Akbarnama battle scene and garden border
Akbarnama battle scene and garden border
Indian
late 16th - early 17th century
Object number: 54.34
First Page of a Book
First Page of a Book
Egyptian
late 15th century
Object number: 44.67
Photo: Paul Macapia
Hamza and Umar exchange insults with Ghazanfar and challenge him to battle outside the fortress of Armanus
Mukhlis and Madhva Khurd
ca. 1570
Object number: 68.160
Illuminated page: Battle Scene
Illuminated page: Battle Scene
Islamic
1508
Object number: 49.175
Lotus Sutra
Lotus Sutra
Japanese
late 12th century
Object number: 48.171
Photo: Paul Macapia
Babur Scene from the Akbarnama (with border from the Farhangi-Jahangiri dictionary manuscript)
Indian
late 16th century
Object number: 46.28
Photo: Sarah Berman
First page from a book
Persian
early 16th century
Object number: 41.25