A QUR’AN FOLIO IN KUFIC SCRIPT ON VELLUM, NORTH AFRICA OR NEAR EAST, 9TH CENTURY ADQur’an XCII. sura al- Layl vv.11 to end of vv.18Length: 32.5cmWidth: 23.5cmThe script on this large Qur'an leaf is close to that of the so-called Amajur Qur'an, a manuscript in Kufic script that was donated as a waqf endowment to a mosque in Tyre in 875-6 AD by Amajur, the Abbasid givernor of Damascus. Although this waqf date gives us a terminus quem rather than an exact date of production, this date is considered to be a good indication of the approximate production period of Kufic scripts of this mature style , termed category D by François Déroche (Déroche 1992, pp.36-37, 44-45). The script is an elegant and well-executed example, with balanced use of horizontal stretching (mashq) and the vertical punctuation of the letter-forms alif and lam.Two folios from the same are in the Musée des arts Islamiques de Kairouan (Carthage 1982, no.328), and a bifolium was exhibited in Berlin in 2006 in the exhibition Ink and Gold, (Fraser & Kwiatkowski 2006, no.7);