Two Folios from a Qur’an

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.