Leaf from an Abbasid Quran, on parchment [probably North Africa, ninth or early tenth century]

Leaf from an Abbasid Qur'an, in Arabic, decorated manuscript on parchment [North Africa or the Near East, end of the ninth or early tenth century] single leaf, containing the text from Surah al-Baqarah (The Cow) and al-Imran (The Family of Imran), 2:272-3:41, single column, 17 lines informal kufic script, some vocalisation shown with red dots, roundels formed of red and brown circles marking important divisions in the text, a few dots and corrections added in a later hand, a few small scuff marks, outer lower corner of leaf chipped with loss to text, extremities darkened and worn, c. 150 by 215 mm. This leaf is comparable to early Abbasid leaves in "Script Style E" of F. Déroche's calligraphic table, where it is noted that such Qur'ans were perhaps intended for personal use. For more, see F. Déroche The Abbasid Tradition (1992, nos. 63-66. pp. 117-120).