Opening Page from a Qur'an
With Nejat Rabbi, Tehran, by 1934 [1];
With Arthur Upham Pope, London and New York, by 1934[2];
Purchased from Pope by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 1934.
[1] According to Arthur Upham Pope, invoice to NAMA, July 17, 1934, NAMA curatorial files.
[2] According to Pope in a letter to the Director, dated August 4, 1936, in the NAMA curatorial files, this page is from a Qur’an produced for the interment of Shah Sefi, the successor of Shah Abbas in approximately 1635.
Roger Ward and Patricia J. Fidler, eds., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection (New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 1993), 404, (repro.).
Deborah Emont Scott, ed., The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art: A Handbook of the Collection, 7th ed. (Kansas City, MO: Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2008), 31, no. 23, (repro.).
