Binding from Qur'an
Walters manuscript W.561 is bound in a light brown goatskin binding, contemporary with the manuscript. The binding is decorated with blind- and gold-tooled geometric designs. There are traces of blue pigment.
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79629
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object
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normalized
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Mamluk Amir Aytimish (Aytmish) [al-Bajasi] (died 802 AH/AD 1400), Cairo [date of acquisition unknown], by commission; Library of the Madrasah [later known as al-Madrasah al-Aytimishiyah], Bab al-Wazir, Cairo [date of acquistion unknown], by bequest [bequest (waqf) statement in the name of the Mamluk Amir Aytimish on folio 3a]; Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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CC0
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language
en
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1
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import
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