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Los 60
26.10.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 44 100
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
VeranstaltungsortVereinigtes Königreich, London
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Los 60 | QUR'AN
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SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, MID 16TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on paper, 314ff. plus five fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh with red nasta'liq Persian interlinear translation, within gold and polychrome rules, gold and blue rosette verse markers, the margins with occasional commentary, gold and polychrome marginal medallions, catchwords, sura headings in white thuluth reserved against a gold cartouche with floral arabesques on gold and polychrome panels, the opening bifolio with al-fatiha written in thuluth reserved against gold and polychrome illumination, preceded by shamsas and similar illumination, the following bifolio with the text reserved against gold cloudbands and an illuminated headpiece, similar illumination on two final bifolios, with an illuminated du'a and falnama, in contemporaneous lacquer binding, the doublures red leather

Text panel 9 ½ x 5 7/8in. (24 x 15cm.); 13 3/8 x 9 3/8in. (34 x 23.7cm.)





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Private Collection, US, since at least 1959
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