POSSIBLY SYRIA, 12TH CENTURY

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A QUR'AN BIFOLIO
POSSIBLY SYRIA, 12TH CENTURY
Comprising Qur'an II (sura al-baqara) vv.44-84 (part), Arabic manuscript on buff paper, each folio with 19ll. of black-outlined gold thuluth, diacritics and vocalisation in blue and gold, small gold rosette verse markers, illuminated marginal medallions marking various points in the text, borders restored, some worming, mounted
Folio 12 x 8in. (30.3 x 20.2cm.) (2)

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Lot Essay

A bifolium from the same Qur'an is in the Nasser D.Khalili Collection (David James, The Master Scribes, London, 1992, p.30-1, cat.3). Another folio is in Beit al-Quran in Bahrein (Beit al-Quran, Manama, 2000, p.87). The overlapping of the lines of text is very unusual and a distinctive feature of this Qur'an.

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