ID 1404753
Los 19 | QUR'AN JUZ' XXI
Schätzwert
£ 80 000 – 120 000
SIGNED AMIR HAJ IBN AHMAD AL-SAYINI, PROBABLY TABRIZ, ILKHANID IRAN, DATED SHAWWAL AH 734/JUNE-JULY 1334 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 30ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each with 5ll. gold rayhani with vocalisation and tajwid in cobalt-blue, gold rosette verse markers, in gold and blue rules, the margins plain with blue and gold illuminated marginal medallions, the opening bifolio with 3ll. gold thuluth reserved against a pink ground with floral motifs and the juz' number set above and below in white thuluth reserved against cobalt-blue panels with spiralling gold arabesques, the colophon signed and dated, the folios bound but lacking covers
Text panel 8 3/8 x 5 5/8in. (21.3 x 14.3cm.); folio 14 x 10 3/8in. (35.7 x 26.4cm.)
Provenance
Anon. sale, Sotheby’s London, 27 April 1982, lot 207
Literature
David James, Qur'ans of the Mamluks, London, 1988, no.55, pp.161-2 and 242
Masterpieces of Islamic Art from Ahuan Islamic Art, London, 1984, p.15
Oliver Hoare, The Unity of Islamic Art, Riyadh, 1985, no.19
| Historische Ära: | Ilkhanat-Dynastie |
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| Herkunftsort: | Iran, Asien |
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| Historische Ära: | Ilkhanat-Dynastie |
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| Herkunftsort: | Iran, Asien |
| Kategorie des Auktionshauses: | Bücher und Handschriften, Waffen und Rüstungen |
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