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A BIFOLIUM FROM A QUR'AN IN MUHAQQAQ SCRIPT ON PAPER, EGYPT OR SYRIA, MAMLUK, 14TH CENTURY
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Description
- vellum
text: surat al-qamar (liv), vv.53-55 (end)
Arabic manuscript leaves on paper, two folios with two and five lines per page written in bold muhaqqaq script on paper, gold rosettes between verses, two pages with central text panels illuminated with interlinear scrolling foliate motifs and gold border bands with illuminated roundels extending into the margins, one page blank, mounted
Arabic manuscript leaves on paper, two folios with two and five lines per page written in bold muhaqqaq script on paper, gold rosettes between verses, two pages with central text panels illuminated with interlinear scrolling foliate motifs and gold border bands with illuminated roundels extending into the margins, one page blank, mounted
Catalogue Note
This bifolium contains the last verses of Sura 54 (Al-Qamar). The fact that the final two pages contain a prayer spread across two illuminated panels indicates that this was also the end of a physical volume. Since this text falls at a hizb division, it indicates that the manuscript was originally produced in 60 volumes.