Art is a journey into the most unknown thing of all - oneself. Nobody knows his own frontiers… I don’t think I’d ever want to take a road if I knew where it led.

Louis Kahan
Illuminated Manuscript, The left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.559, fol.2a The incipit page from an illuminated codex of the Koran (Qur’an) with Persian interlinear translation, executed in 723 AH / 1323 CE by Mubārakshāh ibn Quṭb, one of the six pupils of the famed calligrapher Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī (d. 698 AH / 1298 CE). See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=38669 (by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts)

Illuminated Manuscript, The left side of a double-page illuminated frontispiece, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.559, fol.2a

The incipit page from an illuminated codex of the Koran (Qur’an) with Persian interlinear translation, executed in 723 AH / 1323 CE by Mubārakshāh ibn Quṭb, one of the six pupils of the famed calligrapher Yāqūt al-Mustaʿṣimī (d. 698 AH / 1298 CE).

See this manuscript page by page at the Walters Art Museum website:
art.thewalters.org/viewwoa.aspx?id=38669

(by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts)



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