"VERY RARE QUR’AN PINK FOLIO WITH QUR’AN XXXVI. SURA AL-YAS...

Estimate

£25,000 - £30,000

"VERY RARE QUR’AN PINK FOLIO WITH
QUR’AN XXXVI. SURA AL-YASIN HEADING,
13TH CENTURY
SPAIN, ANDALUSIA"

"Qur’an XXXV. Sura al-Fatr v.45 part
Qur’an XXXVI. Sura al-Yasin heading, Basmala, v.1, v.2.
Arabic manuscript on pink paper, 5 lines of sepia maghrib script, diacritics in gold outlined with black, shaddah and sukun marked in blue, hamza al kat’marked in gold and hamza al’wasl marked in sepia dots, verses marked with two gold roundels and one polychrome and gold trefoil, two lines surah heading in gold Kufic reserved on scrolling branches and issuing a roundel into the margin, with the inscription indicates Macci sura, upper margin with punched inventory inscription, trimmed, overall very good condition

Similar folios from the same Qur’an manuscript sold in the Auctions and displaying at Museums and private collections while the sura headings are rare.
A folio with sura headings sold in Christie’s 10 October 2013 lot 70
215 folios, formerly in the collection of Maréchal Lyautey were sold at the Hotel Georges V, Paris, 30 October 1975, lot 488, and quickly appeared at Auction Houses."