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Qur'an folio

細節

Qur'an folio
Kairouan, 10th century

comprising sura III, al-Imran, part v.28 to part v.31, manuscript on blue vellum, 15ll. of elegant gold kufic, silver rosettes between verses, gold marginal medallion marking the tenth verse, (some oxidisation, very slight buckling, two patches of scuffing - not affecting text, reverse scuffed and faded)
folio 11¼ x 14½in. (28.8 x 36.9cm.)

出版

A.J.Arberry, The Koran Illuminated, A Handlist of Korans in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, 1967, pl.12
Arnold-Grohman, The Islamic Book, London, 1929, p.20
de Carthage a Kairouan-2000 Ans d'Art et d'Histoire en Tunisie, Musée du Petit Palais de la Ville de Paris, Exhibition Catalogue, Paris, 1983, pp.26 and 267
M. Lings and Y.Safadi, the Qur'an, London, 1976, no.11, p.25
A.U.Pope, A Survey of Persian Art, Vol III, Oxford, 1939, p.1944
Treasures of Islam, Musée d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, London, 1985, no.3, p.36
A.Welch, Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World, New York, 1979, no.4, p.15

拍品專文

The Qur'an from which this leaf comes was ordered by the Abbasid Caliph al-Ma'mun and was intended for the Great mosque at Mashhad. However it never left Kairouan where it was executed and most of the manuscript is now in the National Library, Tunis. Other folios are in the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and private collections: other leaves were sold in these rooms as lot 66 on 9th November 1977, lot 83 on 25 November 1985 and lot 303 on 10th October 1989.