ID: 700008598 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008598	Record Type: Movable Work
Images: 1

Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an (folio (leaf); Calligrapher: Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri (died 1320–1...; A.H. 706/ CE 1306–1307; Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, U...; )

Note: This is the right half of a double‑page opening to a volume of the Qur'an. Its patron is unknown, but we know that the calligrapher was Ahmad ibn al‑Suhrawardi, a famous student of the master scribe Yaqut al‑Musta'simi, and that the illuminator was Muhammad ibn Aibak, who collaborated with him on several outstanding Qur'ans. From the surviving parts of this Qur'an, it appears that the illuminator created a different geometric scheme to preface each volume.

Titles:

Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an (preferred,C,U,RP,English-P,U,U)

Folio from a non-illustrated manuscript (C,U,DE,English,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

folio (leaf) [300189604] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Components (hierarchy name), components (objects parts), <components by specific context>, information form components, gathered matter components, leaves (gathered matter))

Classifications:

books (preferred)

Creation Date: A.H. 706/ CE 1306–1307

Creator Display:

Calligrapher: Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri (died 1320–1321); Illuminator: Muhammad ibn Aibak ibn 'Abdallah [preferred,VP]

illuminator Muhammad ibn Aibak ibn 'Abdallah (Iraqi Islamic illuminator, 14th century) [500450213]

calligrapher Ahmad al-Suhrawardi (Baghdadian calligrapher, died 1320/1321) [500335270]

Locations:

Other: Creation: Baghdād [7002482] Mayorality of Baghdad (governorate), Iraq (nation), Asia (continent), World (facet) (Geographic)

Repository Numbers: 50.12

Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1950

Current: Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City, New York state, United States) [500125157] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Display Materials: ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper

	ink [300015012]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	gouache (paint) [300070114]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>, paint (coating), <paint by composition or origin>, water-base paint)

	gold (metal) [300011021]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material, metal, <metal by composition or origin>, nonferrous metal, <gold and gold alloy>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: 17 x 13 7/8in. (43.2 x 35.2cm); Mat: 22 x 16 in. (55.9 x 40.6 cm); Frame: 23 x 17 in. (58.4 x 43.2 cm)

General Subject:

text (preferred)

Specific Subjects:

	Qur'an [300265128]
	.....(Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Information Forms (hierarchy name), information forms (objects), document genres, <documents by function>, religious texts) (AAT)

Provenance: [ J. Acheroff, Paris, until 1950; sold to MMA]

Inscriptions: English translations of the Qur’an are taken from Arthur J. Arberry’s "The Koran Interpreted" (New York, 1966). In borders at top and bottom in Arabic in "new-style" script : [وإنه لکتاب عزیز لا یأتیه/ الباطل من بین یدیه [ولا من خلفه “[…] and surely it is a Book Sublime; falsehood comes not to it from before it [nor from behind it] (Qur’an 41:41–42)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: drawings, paintings, prints, other two-dimensional media

Sources and Contributors:
Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-) accessed 13 February 2018
Folio from a non-illustrated manuscript	........ [VP]
	........ Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)

Subject: ....... [VP]

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Metropolitan Museum of Art [online] (2001-)