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A Chinese Qur'an juz China, 16th-17th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 58ff., with 5ll. of...
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A Chinese Qur'an juz
China, 16th-17th century,
Arabic manuscript on paper, 58ff., with 5ll. of black Sini script to the page, with gold rosette verse markers, gold verse headers, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome decoration , marginal decorations in the Abbasid style, lacking binding, prayers to front covers,
Folio 25.6 x 29cm
Provenance: Private London Collection formed in the 1970s and 1980s
Marcus Fraser relates this historical context to the establishment of codicological trends within Muslim China, and notably the influence of Central Asian Qur’ans of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in terms of calligraphy, layout and illumination. The significant migration of Central Asian Muslims into China would have conceivably corresponded with the transfer of Central Asian Qur’an manuscripts, along with the movement of calligraphers and illuminators trained in the Central Asian tradition (for a full discussion, see Fraser 2022, pp.180-199).
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