Illuminated Text Page with Verses from Chapter 2
This folio from Walters manuscript W.557 is a text page from chapter 2 (Surat al-baqarah). The name of Allah is illuminated in gold, as it is throughout the manuscript. Verses are separated by an illuminated teardrop form.
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Sultan 'Uthman Khan ibn Mustafá Khan (reigned 1168 AH/AD 1754-1171 AH/AD 1757) [date and mode of acquisition unknown] [Erased seal of Sultan 'Uthman Khan ibn Mustafá Khan and a waqf inscription by Ibrahim Hanif and his seal (fol. 1a)]; Henry Walters, Baltimore, 1897 [mode of acquisition unknown] [Inscription in pencil: H(enry) W(alters) May 1897 direct from Constantinople (front flyleaf ia)]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
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