TWO LOOSE QUR’AN FOLIOS, SURA YUNUS 10:67 - 74 AND AL-HUD 11:81 - 90
Possibly Mamluk Egypt or Syria, or Ilkhanid Iran, 13th - 14th century

TWO LOOSE QUR’AN FOLIOS, SURA YUNUS 10:67 - 74 AND AL-HUD 11:81 - 90
Possibly Mamluk Egypt or Syria, or Ilkhanid Iran, 13th - 14th century

Comprising two loose folios of a Quranic Arabic manuscript on paper, each with 14ll. of black ink thuluth script to the page, illuminated hizb and ushr markers, red and black diacritic marks, gold rosette as verse markers, framed and glazed, the folio 40cm x 28.5cm, 56cm x 28.5cm including the frame.

Provenance: Christie's South Kensington (London), 6 October 2008, part of lot 211.

(Quantity:2)

Dimensions: the folio 40cm x 28.5cm, 56cm x 28.5cm including the frame