QUR’AN MANUSCRIPT FROM NORTH AFRICA

SUDAN OR WESTERN AFRICA, 19TH CENTURY With its original leather case, Arabic manuscript on paper, 350ff., each folio with 17ll. of sepia sudani script, with polychrome three dot cluster verse markers, vocalisation in red, sura titles in red sudani script, numerous polychrome marginal medallion, the sura al-fatiha, sura maryam and sura sad marked by geometrical compositions, the folios unbound between thick cardboard covers