NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, 10TH CENTURY

The script style of this Qur’an section is what François Déroche terms the ‘new style’ as the transition between earlier styles of kufic moving towards more angular letter forms. Our Qur’an shares some features with a section in the Khalili collection recorded as copied in Sicily and dated AH 372/982-3 AD (François Déroche, The Abbasid Tradition, London, 1992, no. 81, pp. 146-51).