A MINIATURE QUR`AN

Lot 46
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 46 | A MINIATURE QUR'AN
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A MINIATURE QUR'AN

SIGNED AHMAD AL-HAFIZ AL-KASHANI, HERAT OR TABRIZ, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED 12 JUMADA II AH 943 / 26 NOVEMBER 1536 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, two flyleaves, each folio with 12ll. black ghubari script, gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in gold thuluth set between blue rules, in gold and blue rules, the margins plain, the opening bifolio with 8ll. reserved against cloudbands in fine illuminated margins, the binding gilt tooled black leather, the doublures blue leather with gold and black decoupé, with silver case

2 ¼in. (5.8cm.) diam.





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Demir 'Ali Arza, Korçë, Albania, 1905

Thence by descent
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