A QURAN FOLIO IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA,10TH CENTURY A QURAN FOLIO IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA,10TH CENTURY

A QURAN FOLIO IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA,10TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3003182

Quran manuscript folio on vellum, 9 lines to the page written in Kufic script in brown ink with diacritics and vowel points in red, blue, and green, possibly later punctuation and one line of heading surah in glossy colors, one gold with red and green dots petalled roundels marking verse-ending. The text surah Al-Hashr (The Exile), part of verse 20–verse 23, on the first side. End of surah Al-Hashr (the rest of verse 23), the beginning of surah Al-Mumtahina (She that is to be examined) part from verse 1, on the other side. 27 by 19.5 cm.

CATALOGUE NOTE The origins of this particular dispersed Quran have never been definitively identified as Near Eastern or North African. Its script follows many characteristics of North African Kufic scripts from the period, however the elongating of letters to this unusual form is a characteristic much attributed to leaves copied in contemporary Damascus (see F. Déroche, The Abbasid Tradition: Qurans of the 8th to the 10th Centuries, 1992, pp. 44-47).