Qur'an leaf

NEAR EAST, 10TH CENTURY

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Qur'an leaf
Near East, 10th Century
Manuscript on vellum, 3ll. of elegant vertical kufic, diacritics in red and green, triangle of gold dots marking end of verse, small holes, slight water staining and fading, framed and glazed
Folio 11 x 7.5/8in. (28 x 19.3cm.)

拍品專文

Other leaves from this elegant three line Qur'an are in the al-Sabah collection (Jenkins, M. ed.: Islamic Art in the Kuwait National Museum, London, 1983, p. 19) and the Nasser D. Khalili collection (Déroche, F.: The Abbasid Tradition, London, 1992, p. 109 and 111).