A KUFIC QUR`AN SECTION

Lot 1
27.10.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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ID 828677
Lot 1 | A KUFIC QUR'AN SECTION
Estimate value
£ 350 000 – 450 000
A KUFIC QUR'AN SECTION

NEAR EAST OR NORTH AFRICA, 8TH/9TH CENTURY

Arabic text on vellum, 162ff. each with 16ll. of black kufic with red diacritics, sura headings in gold, small gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, margins slightly trimmed, unbound

Each folio approximately 10 1/8 x 7 5/8in. (25.7 x 19.5cm.)





Provenance

Michel Abemayor (1912-1975), New York



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