Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the "Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an", by Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri, 706 AH/1306–7 CE
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Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the "Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an"

Calligrapher Ahmad ibn al-Suhrawardi al-Bakri (died 1320/21)

Illuminator Muhammad ibn Aibak ibn 'Abdallah

706 AH/1306–7 CE

Medium
Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Classification
Codices
Dimensions
Overall: H. 17 in. (43.2 cm) W. 13 7/8 in. (35.2 cm) Mat: H. 22 in. (55.9 cm) W. 16 in. (40.6 cm) Frame: H. 23 in. (58.4 cm) W. 17 in. (43.2 cm)
Culture
Iraq
Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Islamic Art
Credit line
Rogers Fund, 1950
Rights
Public domain (Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Teens profiles and older: its museum says too little about what it shows to place it for younger viewers. How works are placed

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