A KUFIC QUR'AN SECTION
A KUFIC QUR'AN SECTION
A KUFIC QUR'AN SECTION
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A KUFIC QUR'AN SECTION
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A KUFIC QUR'AN SECTION

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
Arabic manuscript on vellum, comprising parts of diverse suras and some consecutive pages, 37ff. each with 16ll. of neat black kufic with red vocalisation, gold roundels to mark every tenth verse, five sura headings in gold kufic, with Persian export stamps dated dated AH 1347 / 1928-9 AD, unbound
Folio 7 5⁄8 x 10in. (19.4 x 25.5cm.)
来源
Cornelius J. Hauck (d.1967), donated
Cincinnati Museum Centre
The History of the Art of the Book: The Cornelius J. Hauck Collection, Christie's New York, 27-28 June 2006, lot 58

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These kufic Qur'an folios come from a group of similar manuscripts written in the D.IV script, distinguished by a compact script which is often written at 16 lines to the page. The full mushaf would have been of manageable size, suggesting that these may have been intended as personal copies. Déroche records two manuscripts written in this script with waqf dates AH 270 / 883-4 AD and AH 329 / 940-1 AD respectively, providing a terminus ante quem for the manuscripts to which they were attached. Since specimens of this script have been found in all four of the great caches of kufic manuscripts - Damascus, Cairo, Sana'a, and Kairouan - there is no reason to attribute it to any one of these centres, though the export stamps on these folios suggest that by the 19th century the group was in Iran.

Qur'an sections sold in these Rooms using this script which also share codicological features with this manuscript, such as the number of lines per page and the size of the folios, include one which was part of the Abemayor Collection, 27 October 2022, lot 1 and another from the collection of Mohamed Said Farsi, 25 June 2020, lot 1

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