IRAN OR NEAR EAST, CIRCA 9TH CENTURY

Another folio from this Qur'an sold in these Rooms, 11 October 1988, lot 40 and is now in the Khalili Collection (François Déroche, The Abbasid Tradition, London, 1992, no.69, p.126). A number of other bifolios and sections of this Qur'an sold in these Rooms, 15 October 2002, lots 44 to 52. More recently a section from this Qur'an sold in these Rooms, 8 April 2008, lot 12.

For a note on the Qur'an from which this comes, please see the preceding lot.