About the Artwork
Covers From a Bookbinding
between 1500 and 1550
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Iranian
Islamic
Leather over pasteboards, paper, colors and gilding
Overall: 14 × 9 inches (35.6 × 22.9 cm) Mount (mounted-book closed): 14 1/2 × 10 × 7 1/4 inches (36.8 × 25.4 × 18.4 cm)
Manuscripts
Islamic Art
Founders Society Purchase, Hill Memorial Fund
1985.32.A
Public Domain
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Provenance
(Spink and Sons Ltd., London, England);1986-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Bulletin of the DIA 62, no. 3 (1986): p. 19 (fig 10).
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Islamic, Iranian, Covers From a Bookbinding, between 1500 and 1550, leather over pasteboards, paper, colors and gilding. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Hill Memorial Fund, 1985.32.A.
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