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A KUFIC QUR'AN FOLIO
A KUFIC QUR'AN FOLIO

NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, 9TH/10TH CENTURY

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A KUFIC QUR'AN FOLIO
NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, 9TH/10TH CENTURY
Qur'an LXXXIII, sura al-mutaffifin, vv. 12 (parts) - 17, Arabic manuscript on vellum, each side with 7ll. of strong and elegant sepia kufic, verses marked with pyramids of gold dots, red and green diacritics, khams marker in gold, later numbering in the margins, later fly-leaf attached
Folio 9 1/8 x 12¾in. (23.5 x 32.3cm.)

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A section from this Qur'an is in the Iran Bastan Museum, Tehran (inv.4289), illustrated in Martin Lings, The Qur'anic Art of Calligraphy and Illumination, Westerham, 1976, no. 5). Another sold in these Rooms, 27 April 2004, lot 14. More recently a single folio sold in Sotheby's Doha, 19 March 2009, lot 303. For other folios from the same Qur'an see the preceding and following lots.