A QUR’AN SECTION IN EASTERN KUFIC SCRIPT, NEAR EAST OR PERSIA, 12TH CENTURY AD |

text: surah Hud (XI) v.123 to surah an-Nahl (XVI) v.58Arabic manuscript on paper, 17 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 17 lines to the page written in Eastern Kufic in black ink, verses separated by gold clusters, the margins with polychrome geometrical verse markers, 5 surah headings written in gold outlined in black, incomplete, in later brown leather binding with stamped gilt decoration

In generally good condition, the margins have been cropped and most of the verse markers are not intact, the paper has been restored,re-inkining, minor repainting, various stains, as viewed
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This Qur’an section is noteworthy for its strong hand and some intricate geometrical roundels used as verse markers. The gold surah headings are closely related to the ones in a copy now in the Khalili Collection dated to the twelfth century (inv.no. QUR124 published in Déroche 1992, pp.168-9). A very similar section in size and style sold recently at Christie’s London, 21 April 2016, lot 63.