Title: Two Folios from a Qur’an
Date: 12th Century AD
Location: perhaps Syria
Materials: ink, gold and opaque watercolour on paper
Dimensions: 2 folios; 28 x 18.5 cm; 19 lines to the page
Accession Number: QUR 589
Other Notes:
The lines of the script are cramped together in a highly unusual manner reminiscent of inscriptions on stone or stucco.
Script:
Thulth script
Bibliography:
F. Déroche, The Abbasid Tradition, Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. II, London 1992, p.30, cat.3.J.M. Rogers, The Arts of Islam. Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, London 2010, p.72, cat.62.
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