This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!
Enormous 15th Century Quran On Display At Smithsonian Show
Two 5 by 7 foot consecutive pages from a 15th century Quran travel to Washington for The Art of the Qur an exhibit at the Sackler Gallery. The pages, carved with 8 to 9 inch high script, date to about 1400 and were long owned by the Smithsonian. The exhibit surveys calligraphy styles across nearly a millennium and includes other manuscripts from Istanbul and the Sackler Freer collections.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
D.C
Museum of Turkish and Islamic Arts
Arthur M. Sackler
Smithsonian Museum
Simon Rettig
Timur
Central Asia
Tamerlane
Omar Agta
Massumeh Farhad
Sackler and Freer
Omar Aqta
Museum of
Sackler