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These folios once belonged to the first, sixth and seventh parts of a seven-part Qur'an that was clearly an impressive, richly illuminated manuscript. The available evidence suggests that each part had a double-page frontispiece and finispiece. The surviving half of the frontispiece (folio 1a) is part of a statistical table of the components of the Qur'an: words, letters, diacritical points and so on. The first pages of the text (folios 1b–2a) with surah al-Fatihah (I) and the beginning of surah al-Baqarah (II), written so that the last word of al-Fatihah appears on the following page, have the titles in plainer Kufic in illuminated rectangular panels with hasps. Other rectangular panels and cartouches contain information on the two surahs and their place in the Qur'an.
The Khalili Collections
London
Title
Fragments of a Seven-Part Qur'an
Date
11th C
Medium
ink, gold & opaque watercolour on thick paper
Accession number
567
Work type
Drawing
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