A QURAN FOLIO IN EASTERN KUFIC SCRIPT, PERSIA OR CENTRAL ASIA, 11TH-12TH CENTURY A QURAN FOLIO IN EASTERN KUFIC SCRIPT, PERSIA OR CENTRAL ASIA, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

A QURAN FOLIO IN EASTERN KUFIC SCRIPT, PERSIA OR CENTRAL ASIA, 11TH-12TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3003117

An Eastern Kufic script in black ink written on cream polished paper, 9 lines to each page, verses separated by polychrome and gold rosettes, vocalization in red, diacritics in blue, gold and polychrome ‘ashr and khamsa verse markers. Juz (IX) in gold. Text from surah Al-Anf’al (IX), verses from 38-41. 41 by 30 cm.

CATALOGUE NOTE This folio comes from a dispersed Quran attributable to Persia. Also, a similar Quran, smaller in size but written in the same bold black Eastern Kufic is dated to the end of the 10th century (see Bloom 2001, p.104-5).