TWO ILLUMINATED QUR’AN SECTIONS, NORTH AFRICA OR SPAIN, DATED 802 AH/1400 AD

TWO ILLUMINATED QUR’AN SECTIONS, NORTH AFRICA OR SPAIN, DATED 802 AH/1400 AD

Volume I: part of juz XVI, juz XXVII and juz XXVIII; surah al-dhariyaht (LI), v.1 to surah al-tahrim (LXVI), v. 12

Volume II: part of juz XXVIII, juz XXIX and juz XXX surah al-tahrim (LXVI), v.12 to surah al-nas (CXIV), v.6

Arabic manuscript on paper, vol.I with 78 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, vol.II with 66 leaves plus 2-fly-leaves, both with 9 lines to the page, written in Maghribi in dark brown ink with red and blue vocalisation, ruled in red, verses separated by a yellow dot, marginal verse markers in gold, 57 surah headings in total written in gold outlined in black and red, ending with a marginal polychrome and gold roundel, f.1a of vol.II with a polychrome and gold heading (‘unwan), f.66a of vol.II with a finispiece written in gold and decorated in red, vol.II incomplete, each in dark red leather binding with flap

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18.3 by 13.4cm.