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Lot Essay
These kufic Qur'an folios come from a group of similar manuscripts written in the D.IV script, distinguished by a compact script which is often written at 16 lines to the page. The full mushaf would have been of manageable size, suggesting that these may have been intended as personal copies. Déroche records two manuscripts written in this script with waqf dates AH 270 / 883-4 AD and AH 329 / 940-1 AD respectively, providing a terminus ante quem for the manuscripts to which they were attached. Since specimens of this script have been found in all four of the great caches of kufic manuscripts - Damascus, Cairo, Sana'a, and Kairouan - there is no reason to attribute it to any one of these centres, though the export stamps on these folios suggest that by the 19th century the group was in Iran.
Qur'an sections sold in these Rooms using this script which also share codicological features with this manuscript, such as the number of lines per page and the size of the folios, include one which was part of the Abemayor Collection, 27 October 2022, lot 1 and another from the collection of Mohamed Said Farsi, 25 June 2020, lot 1
Qur'an sections sold in these Rooms using this script which also share codicological features with this manuscript, such as the number of lines per page and the size of the folios, include one which was part of the Abemayor Collection, 27 October 2022, lot 1 and another from the collection of Mohamed Said Farsi, 25 June 2020, lot 1