A FOLIO FROM A QUR'AN IN MAGHRIBI SCRIPT, MADE FOR ABU MUHAMMAD SAYYID ABDALLAH AL-GHAZWANI, COPIED BY THE SCRIBE AHMAD IBN ALI IBN ABI IBRAHIM, MOROCCO, 1063 AH/1653 AD

Text: Surat Al-Zilzal (xcix), v.8 - Surat Al-Adiyat (c), v.11
Arabic manuscript folio, ink, opaque watercolours and gold on paper, seven lines per page written in bold Maghribi script in brown ink on paper, verse divisions marked with gold florets, fifth verse divisions marked with scallop-shaped devices, tenth verse divisions marked with gold roundels, sura heading written in gold Kufic script with adjacent stylized marginal palmette in colours and gold

Adrienne Minassian, New York, 1955

This folio comes from a Maghribi Qur'an manuscript on paper dated 1063/1653. The final section (Juz' 30), published by Bernard Quaritch in 1999, had a very informative colophon, giving the name of the patron as Abu Muhammad Sayyid Abdallah al-Ghazwani, son of Shaykh al-Islam Muhammad Ibn Abi Bakr, the name of the scribe as Ahmad Ibn Ali Ibn Abi Ibrahim, and the date of completion as 1063 AH/653 AD (see Quaritch 1999, item 22, pp.41-45). That Juz' is now in the Museum of Islamic Art, Doha (see Khemir 2006, pp.162-165, where it is mis-catalogued as 12th-13th century).