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A QUR’AN BIFOLIUM IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, 9TH CENTURY AD

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June 10, 06:00 PM GMT

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30,000 - 50,000 GBP

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A QUR’AN BIFOLIUM IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚM, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, 9TH CEꦬNTURY AD


text: surah al-Baqara (II), end of v.185 to beginning to v.186 and middle of v.195 to beginning of v.196

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 7 lines to the page written in elongated Kufic in dark brown ink, diacritics in the form of red, yellow and green dots, verses separated by small triangular clusters of six gold dots, tear-drop form gold and polychrome khamsa verse markers


leaf: 26.8 by 36.7cm.

bifolium: 26.8 by 73.6cm.

The script on this large Qur'an leaf is close to that of the so-called Amajur Qur'an, a manuscript in Kufic script that was donated as a waqf endowment to a mosque in Tyre in 875-6 AD by Amajur, the Abbasid givernor of Damascus. Although this waqf date gives us a terminus quem rather than an exact date of production, this date is considered to be a good indication of the approximate production period of Kufic scripts of this mature style , termed category D by François Déroche (Déroche 1992, pp.36-37, 44-45). The script is an elegant and well-executed example, with balanced use of horizontal stretching (mashq) and the vertical punctuation of the letter-forms alif and lam.


Two folios from the same are in the Musée des arts Islamiques de Kairouan (Carthage 1982, no.328), and a bifolium was exhibited in Berlin in 2006 in the exhibition Ink and Gold, (Fraser & Kwiatkowski 2006, no.7); a leaf from the same surah, v.197, sold in theseꦫ rooms, 24 October 2007, lot 8; other leaves sold in these rooms, 28 April 1993, lot 67; 15 October 1997, lot 2 and 7; 29 A🎀Pril 1998, lots 5 and 6.