Single Folio from a Qur'an

Image credit: The Khalili Collections

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The folio is from a dispersed manuscript, which must have been one of the finest North African Qur'ans of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was very probably a royal commission in Morocco or even in Nasrid Granada. Its fine script is written in gold with black outlines, with handsome verse markers and even more elaborate marginal roundels indicating every five and ten verses. Differences in the script of the surviving pages suggest that the Qur'an may have been the work of two or more scribes.

The Khalili Collections

London

Title

Single Folio from a Qur'an

Date

c.1250–1350

Medium

ink, gold & opaque watercolour on vellum; 19th-century borders of pink & gold-sprinkled dark-blue paper

Accession number

576

Work type

Drawing

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The Khalili Collections

London, Greater London England

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