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Four vellum Qur'an leaves in maghribi script North Africa or Andalusia, 13th Century(4)
10 April 2008, 14:30 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £3,360 inc. premium
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North Africa or Andalusia, 13th Century
North Africa or Andalusia, 13th Century
Arabic manuscript on vellum, four leaves originating from two Qur'an manuscripts, seven lines to the page written in large and dispersed maghribi script in brown ink with diacritics and vowel points in green, blue and red, illuminated markers between verses, illuminated circular and pear-shaped devices in margins, some defects, in mounts
225 x 210 mm.(4)
225 x 210 mm.(4)
Footnotes
Text: sura III Al-Umran, verses 87-91; sura XXIII al-Mu'minun, verses 3-12; sura XII Yusuf, verses 5-7, 51-53.