Part of a Quran with text and opening page

Twenty-two vellum folios from a Qur’an manuscript, each with five lines in Kufic ductus, a header and an ornamental page. Written with a reed pen in brown-black ink. Black and red diacritics, gold-ornamented rosettes within the text at the endings of sentences and in the margins with verse markings. Decorations in gold and brownish hues. The ornamentation of the decorations shows the influence of the Sasanian tradition in the feathered wing-palmettes and parallels to Byzantine art in the basket weave and surface patterns. The narrow horizontal format is due to a practice to keep the thirty parts of the Qur’an individually bound in a case, so as to allow several persons to read the holy scripture at the same time��. The other folios are without textual continuity. The passage contains verses 29-30 of the 32nd sura “as�-�Sağda��” (Adoration): “Say: ‘On the Day of Decision, no profit will it be to Unbelievers if they (then) believe! nor will they be granted a respite.’ So turn away from them, and wait: they too are waiting.” The decorative border that follows surrounds the title of the next section of the sura “al-Ahzab” (The Clans).