QUR’AN LEAF IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM
Text: Sura III, al-i-‘Imran, VV.122-125
7 lines per page written in bold, extended kufic script in brown ink on vellum, letter pointing of brown diagonal dashes, vocalisation of red yellow and green dots, single verses marked with a gold floret decorated with coloured dots, fifth verses marked with a gold stylised kufic letter ‘ha’, ink on reverse worn, edges slightly frayed
33.5 by 25 cm
Dutton has given a detailed description of the diacritics used on a selection of early kufic leaves and mentions the variant readings thus indicated (Dutton 2000). One of the leaves he describes and illustrates is from a Qur’an section now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford. Although its measurements are not exactly like the present leaf (the section in the Bodleian measures 20.2 by 31cm. and is probably slightly trimmed), the script, its arrangement on the page and the vocalisation would indicate that they are all from one same manuscript.
