A KUFIC QUR’AN FOLIO
A KUFIC QUR'AN FOLIO, NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, 9TH CENTURY AD
Stock number: 1115
Text: Surah (XL) Ghafir verses 41-42
5 lines of Kufic script in black, dots and vocalisation marks in bold gold dots, one larger rosette marking the divide between the two verses present
15 by 22.5 cm
The lack of diacritics and vocalisation marked by gold dots are described as uncommon by F Déroche in a discussion about a very similar leaf (see The Abbasid Tradition, 1992, no.22, p.70). Another folio from the same Qur’an is in the Topkapi Palace Library, Istanbul (Ms. EH.30).
