A QUR’AN LEAF IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, 9TH/10TH CENTURY AD
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June 10, 06:00 PM GMT
Estimate
7,000 - 10,000 GBP
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A QUR’AN LEAF IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, 9TH/10TH CENTURY AD
text: surah az-Zukhruf (XLIII), beginning of v.85 to surah ad-Dukhan (XLIV), beginning of v.18
Arabic manuscript on vellum, 15 lines to the page written in elongated Kufic in dark brown ink, diacritics in the form of red and green dots, verses separated by a single dark brown dot, ‘ashr and khamsa verse markers respectively in the shape of gold and polychrome rosettes and inverted comma in gold outlined in dark brown, surah heading in gold outlined in dark brown ink, framed
leaf: 18.4 by 26cm.
Ex-collection Takako Hauge, US, acquired in 1960s.
Three leaves of this Qur’an have been sold at auction, two in these rooms, 25 April 2002, lot 3 and 6 July 1981, lot 4, and the other at Christie’s London, 18 October 1994, lot 33.