Three Koran folios, Abbasid Iran, 11th-12th century Handwritten folios on paper with 27 lines of text per page in oriental kufic Arabic in black ink, diacritical marks in red ink, verses separated by gold discs circled in red, text divisions indicated by medallions illuminated in gold and polychrome. The folios are not consecutive: Qur'an V, 1-9, Qur'an X, 80 - 104, Qur'an XIII, 1-17. Dim. with restorations: approx. 18 x 12.5 cm Wear, wetness, wormholes, restored folios, later pencilling. These three folios come from a single manuscript of the Qur'an, few pages of which have been catalogued to date. Among public collections, two are held at the Library of Congress, African and Middle Eastern Division in Washington (1-89-154.177 a b), one folio is at the Detroit Institute of Art (no.25.81.B) and two others are at the Brown University Library in Providence (no. A983, manuscript 39, folio 2). On the art market in recent years, a folio sold at Rim Enchères in Paris on December 17, 2024 (lot 7).