The New Guide of the Museum of Islamic Art - MIA, Doha (Qatar) includes two of the more than 600 parchment folios which originally constituted a complete Qur'an manuscript, possibly a multivolume one. This rare and luxurious codex displays an unusual, yet meaningful, chromatic combination with its chrysography on deep-blue coloured parchment. The catalogue entry sums up the most recent reserach on thi iconic item.

Two folios from the so-called Blue Qur'an / D'Ottone, Arianna. - (2022), pp. 30-31.

Two folios from the so-called Blue Qur'an

D'Ottone, Arianna
2022

Abstract

The New Guide of the Museum of Islamic Art - MIA, Doha (Qatar) includes two of the more than 600 parchment folios which originally constituted a complete Qur'an manuscript, possibly a multivolume one. This rare and luxurious codex displays an unusual, yet meaningful, chromatic combination with its chrysography on deep-blue coloured parchment. The catalogue entry sums up the most recent reserach on thi iconic item.
2022
Museum of Islamic Art: the Collection
9780500480847
Blue Qur'an, Museum of Islamic Art, Doha, Qur'an, chrysography, blue indigo, parchment
02 Pubblicazione su volume::02f Scheda di catalogo
Two folios from the so-called Blue Qur'an / D'Ottone, Arianna. - (2022), pp. 30-31.
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