Qur'an section

NORTH AFRICA, 13TH-14TH CENTURY

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Qur'an section
North Africa, 13th-14th century
From sura 38 Sad to sura 52 al-Tur, manuscript on cream paper, 186ff. with 8ll. of cursive maghribi, gold trefoils between verses, gold half palmettes every fifth verse, gold roundels every tenth verse, a variety of gold, red and blue marginal medallions containing kufic, sura headings in gold kufic, opening folio with gold and polychrome header, preceding illuminated carpet bifolio, one similar closing folio remaining, considerable worm damage, in original brown morocco binding with remnants of flap, inscribed thirteen, spine repaired, considerable worm damage
Folio 10 x 7in. (25.3 x 18.4cm.)

拍品专文

It is unusual to find a Qur'an section of this period and from the Maghrib which is written on paper, rather than on vellum. Andalusia and North Africa continued to use vellum for Qur'ans in preference to paper where the rest of the Islamic world was producing and using paper for all manuscripts by this time.