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A large leaf from a dispersed Qur'an written in kufic script on vellum North Africa or Andalusia...

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A large leaf from a dispersed Qur'an written in kufic script on vellum North Africa or Andalusia...

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A large leaf from a dispersed Qur'an written in kufic script on vellum
North Africa or Andalusia, 9th-10th Century
Arabic manuscript on vellum, 14 lines to the page written in elegant kufic script in brown ink with vowel points in red, pyramids of gold dots marking the verse-endings, khams marker a gold cusped roundel with coloured dots
245 x 330 mm.
Footnotes:
Text
Qur'an, sura VII, al-A'raf, parts of verse 49 to most of verse 56.

A bifolium from this same Qur'an manuscript was sold at Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 26th April 2012, lot 55; and a single leaf on 27th April 2017, lot 23; and single leaf at Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World and India, 30th March 2022, lot 3.

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A large leaf from a dispersed Qur'an written in kufic script on vellum North Africa or Andalusia...

Name: A large leaf from a dispersed Qur'an written in kufic script on vellum North Africa or Andalusia...
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