ID 1404609
Los 32 | A MAGHRIBI QUR'AN SECTION
Schätzwert
£ 15 000 – 20 000
SPAIN OR MOROCCO, 13TH/14TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on parchment, comprising Qur'an V, sura al-ma'idah, vv.19-35 and vv.111-120 and Qur'an VI, sura al-An'am, vv.1-3 and 33-39, 12ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 7ll. of sepia maghribi script, sukun and shadda in blue ink, hamza indicated by green and yellow dots, with elaborate gold illuminated roundels to mark divisions, the margins with large illuminated medallions, with one sura heading in gold kufic with illuminated marginal pendant, catchwords, in later gilt-tooled pale morocco binding, parchment doublures, the quires loose
Folio 6 ¾ x 6 ¼in. (17 x 15.8cm.)
Provenance
Ex-collection Oliver Henry Perkins des Moines, Iowa (d.1912)
Anderson Galleries, New York, 23 March 1926, lot 521
The Shakerine Collection, Sotheby's London, 23 October 2019, lot 2
| Herkunftsort: | Marokko, Afrika |
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| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Bücher und Handschriften, Waffen und Rüstungen |
| Herkunftsort: | Marokko, Afrika |
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| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Bücher und Handschriften, Waffen und Rüstungen |
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