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A Qur'an leaf on vellum written in elongated kufic script Near East or North Africa, 9th-10th Century image 1
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Lot 236

A Qur'an leaf on vellum written in elongated kufic script
Near East or North Africa, 9th-10th Century

23 April 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £4,000

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A Qur'an leaf on vellum written in elongated kufic script
Near East or North Africa, 9th-10th Century

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 10 lines to the page written in elongated kufic script in brown ink with diacritics and vowel points indicated by brown strokes and red dots, verse markers in the form of a roundel and an inverted comma, sura heading written in elongated kufic script with a stylised roundel extending into the outer margin, rubbed, some holes, one crude repair
187 x 290 mm.

Footnotes

Text:
sura XXXVI, Ya-Sin, part of the last word of the last verse (83); sura XXXVII, al-Saffat, verses 1-16.

Other leaves from this manuscript of the Qur'an have appeared at Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 6th October 2010, lot 9; and Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 6th October 2011, lot 21.

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