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Lot 127

Three leaves from a Qur'an on vellum in kufic script, two conjoined, one single
Near East or North Africa, 9th-10th Century
(2)

8 October 2013, 10:30 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Three leaves from a Qur'an on vellum in kufic script, two conjoined, one single
Near East or North Africa, 9th-10th Century

Arabic manuscript on vellum, one bifolium, one single leaf, 11 lines to the page written in kufic script in brown ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and blue, verses marked by quatrefoil motifs in red, blue and yellow, probably later (14th Century) marginal devices including the word hizb within a roundel, and another with the phrase '13th hizb of the 27th juz'[?], others in colour indecipherable, some soiling, small losses to outer margins, not affecting text, creased
170 x 263 mm.(2)

Footnotes

Text: sura XVI, al-Nahl, The Bee, verse 10 to part of verse 24 (single leaf).
sura XVII, al-Isra' or Bani Isra'il, The Children of Israel, part of verse 41 to part of verse 53, and part of verse 97 to part of verse 108 (bifolium).

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