A KUFIC QURAN FOLIO, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, 9TH-10TH CENTURY A KUFIC QURAN FOLIO, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, 9TH-10TH CENTURY

A KUFIC QURAN FOLIO, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, 9TH-10TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3005914

Arabic manuscript on vellum, each side with 6ll. of elegant kufic script, gold verse roundels markers outlined in brown.The horizontally elongated letters seen here are characteristic of early Kufic Qurans, The angular script is moderated by the roundness of several letters that look like large black dots. Vocalization in red and some in green dots.
Quran surah Al-Anaam v. 128-v.131
15 by 22 cm.

CATALOGUE NOTE
Leaves from this dispersed Quran manuscript are notable for their strong and disciplined hand, as well as the strong, exaggerated mashq present here, indicative of 'perfect mastery of the pen' (François Déroche, The Abbasid Tradition, London 1992, p. 69).