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

POSSIBLY IKSHIDID OR EARLY FATIMID EGYPT, 10TH CENTURY

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A KUFIC QUR'AN FOLIO
POSSIBLY IKSHIDID OR EARLY FATIMID EGYPT, 10TH CENTURY
Qur'an XXVI, sura al-shu'ara, vv. 32 (middle)-60 (end), Arabic manuscript on vellum, the folio with 16ll. of small elegant kufic, red diacritics, three gold and polychrome rosette verse markers
Folio 7 5/8 x 9¼in. (19.2 x 23.6cm.)
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Previously in the Collection of the late Harold Lamb, author and screenwriter (1892-1962)
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The very tightly configured kufic of this folio, with the strong but separate words and letters, relates to that on an almost complete kufic Qur'an that sold in these Rooms, 23 October 2007, lot 10. Stylistically the script of both examples are closest to what Déroche called one of his 'early Abbasid scripts' which also appears on a Qur'an bifolio in the Khalili Collection dated to the first half of the 10th century (François Déroche, The Abbasid Tradition, London, 1992, no.57, p.109). When the Qur'an discussed above was offered it was suggested that it may be either Ikshidid or Fatimid in origin. Our Qur'an folio is likely to share the same provenance. The calligraphy is similar to that found on contemporaneous tiraz fragments - see for example one that was offered in these Rooms, 6 October 2011, lot 131. The long letters that terminate in very acute right angles below the line are very similar indeed.