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A West African Qur'an, Senegambia, late 19th-early 20th century Arabic manuscript on toned...
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Description
A West African Qur'an,
Senegambia, late 19th-early 20th century
Arabic manuscript on toned woven paper, 430ff. approx, uncollated, with 15ll. of sepia script to the page, verse markers in yellow and vocalization in red, perhaps defective, with attractive illuminations in red, yellow, and black, original brown leather folding slip with tie,
folio 22 x 16.8cm.
Provenance: Acquired in Chad and Niger in the early 1970s; purchased Bonhams, 23/04/2013, Lot 268 (part lot)
Lot Footnotes
For further reading on West African Qur'ans written in the sub-Sahara, which spans a large area extending from the Sudan to Nigeria, see A. D. H. Bivar, 'The Arabic Calligraphy of West Africa', in Africa Language Review 7 (1968), pp. 3-15; N. van den Boogert, 'Some Notes on Maghribi Script', Manuscripts of the Middle East 4 (1989), pp. 30-43; and A. Brockett, 'Aspects of the Physical Transmission of the Qur'an in 19th Century Sudan: Script, Decoration, Binding and Paper', Manuscripts of the Middle East 2 (1987), pp. 45-67.
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