Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the "Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an", 706/ 1306–7

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Opening Folio of the 26th Volume of the 'Anonymous Baghdad Qur'an', 706/ 1306–7, Made in Iraq, Baghdad, Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper, 17 x 13 7/8in. ( x ), Codices, 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

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