QUR'AN SECTION
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QUR'AN SECTION

MOROCCO, 19TH CENTURY

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QUR'AN SECTION
MOROCCO, 19TH CENTURY
The second 'sixth' of the Qur'an, starting with Qur'an X (sura yunus), Arabic manuscript on paper, 42ff. plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 10ll. of black maghribi script, with polychrome verse markers in the form of red trefoils, black diacritics, red vocalization and polychrome reading marks, sura headings in larger polychrome script issuing a palmette in the margin, text within blue and red rules, marginal markers in polychrome, small catchwords, opening folio with illuminated cartouche, colophon, in Sahrawi soft morocco binding
Text panel 4 ½ x 3 ¼in. (11.2 x 8.2cm.); folio 6 ¾ x 5 1/8in. (17.4 x 13cm.)
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