A KUFIC QUR'AN: JUZ' 18
Possibly Iran or Central Asia, 12th – 14th century, the binding Central Asia, 19th century

Juz' 18, with part of sura An-Nour (24), Arabic manuscript on paper, 16ff., each folio with 8ll. of black ink angular Kufic script, verse markers in two-tone red and gold rosettes, diacritics in black, the chapter heading in gold letters, illuminated marginal markers in the form of roundels or cusped cartouches, fly-leaves with unrelated folios, several library stamps throughout, in tooled red calf binding applied with decoupage segments, including a nominal cartouche in nasta'liq script reading the name ‘Yusuf’, the folio 21.2cm x 29.2cm.