A FRAGMENT FROM A LARGE QUR’AN LEAF IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, CIRCA 750-800 AD

A FRAGMENT FROM A LARGE QUR’AN LEAF IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, CIRCA 750-800 AD

text: surah Luqman (XXXI), middle of v.32 to surah al-Sajdah (XXXII), middle of v.4

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 13 lines to the page written in bold extended Kufic in brown ink, vocalisation in the form of red dots, verses separated by three dashes in brown ink, surah title on the verso in red within a cartouche decorated in green and brown with an interlacing scroll medallion in the margins

leaf: 25 by 35.2cm.