A QUR’AN LEAF IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, 9TH CENTURY AD

A QUR’AN LEAF IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, 9TH CENTURY AD

text: surah al-Waqi’ah (LVI), v.7 to v.48

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 14 lines to the page written in elongated Kufic in dark brown ink, diacritics in the form of red and green dots, verses separated by small triangular clusters of three gold dots, ‘ashr and khamsa verse markers in the shape of gold and polychrome rosettes in gold outlined in dark brown, the outer margins of the recto with a line of Kufic in gold within geometric bands

leaf: 24.2 by 32.8cm.