NEAR EAST, 12TH CENTURY

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AN EASTERN KUFIC QUR'AN SECTION
NEAR EAST, 12TH CENTURY
Qur'an XXXVI, sura ya sin, middle of v.26 to Qur'an XLV, sura al-jathiya, v.26, Arabic manuscript on paper, 26ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 17ll. of black Eastern kufic, drop shaped verse markers and larger rosette ashr markers, sura headings in yellow, the bismillah and key phrases highlighted in larger script, marginal section markers in black, yellow and red, the beginning of each juz' marked with the verse in large letters, losses to the outer margins, some folios loose, misbound, in later gilt stamped morocco
Folios 10 5/8 x 6 7/8in. (27 x 17cm.)

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Lot Essay

A closely related Qur’an fragment with the same distinctive gold sura headings followed by large black bismillahs in the Khalili Collection, dated to the 12th century (François Déroche, The Abbasid Tradition, Oxford, 1992, cat.87, pp.168-69). Two folios from a slightly earlier eastern kufic Qur’an were sold at Christie’s South Kensington, 10 October 2014, lot 255. A near complete eastern kufic Qur’an was sold in these Rooms, 6 October 2011, lot 45.

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