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

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A KUFIC QUR’AN SECTION

NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, 9TH/10TH CENTURY
Qur’an XXX, sura al-rum, middle of v.44 to Qur'an XXXII, sura al-sajdah, middle of v.14, Arabic manuscript on vellum, 10ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 10ll. of elegant black kufic, diacritics in red and green, the margins with gold and polychrome rosette ‘ashr markers and golden khams markers, two sura headings written in gold, minor areas of restoration to the outer margins, in a later gilded and stamped black morocco, with fitted cloth lined archival case

Folio 4 1/8 x 6½in. (10.7 x 16cm.)

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Lot Essay

A slightly larger but stylistically very similar kufic Qur’an section is in the Chester Beatty Library (inv. Ms. 1402; Arthur J. Arberry, The Koran Illuminated, Dublin, 1967, no. 2, pl. 11.) Both folios have very distinctive rounded mim, waw, and ha letters and gold sura headings with horizontally extended letters.

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