A QURAN FOLIO IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, 9TH CENTURY A QURAN FOLIO IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, 9TH CENTURY

A QURAN FOLIO IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, 9TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3003188

Quran manuscript folio on vellum, 14 lines written in Kufic script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red, possibly later punctuation, three gold roundel dots marking verse-endings, and one khams (fifth verse) marked by gold and polychrome rosette roundels with abjad kufic ‘ha’. The text surah An-Nisaa, verses part from 34 on the first side, continue the surah to part verse 41 on the other side. 24.5 by 31 cm.