A MAGHRIBI QUR`AN SECTION

Lot 15
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 60 000
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ID 1306566
Lot 15 | A MAGHRIBI QUR'AN SECTION
Estimate value
£ 60 000 – 80 000
A MAGHRIBI QUR'AN SECTION
MERINID OR WATTASID MOROCCO, 15TH CENTURY
Qur'an VII, sura al-a'raf, v.4 to XVIII, sura al-kahf, v.99 with lacunae, Arabic manuscript on paper, 198ff. plus 4 flyleaves, each folio with 9ll. sepia maghribi, vocalisation in red, with shadda and sukun in lapis blue, hamza marked by yellow and indigo dots, triple gold roundel verse markers, occasional words and phrases like the shahada picked out in gold, sura titles in gold kufic with illuminated marginal pendants, the margins plain with occasional illumination to mark divisions, in later blind tooled brown leather binding, the doublures plain
Folio 10 ¾ x 8in. (27.2 x 20.3cm.)




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With Dutch trade by 1995, from which acquired by the current owner
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