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A QUR`AN SCROLL (TUMAR)

Lot 28
27.10.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
Classic
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£ 1 602 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 828834
Lot 28 | A QUR'AN SCROLL (TUMAR)
Estimate value
£ 250 000 – 350 000
A QUR'AN SCROLL (TUMAR)

COMMISSIONED FOR GHIYATH AL-DIN SULTAN MUHAMMAD IBN SULTAN ERETNA, SIGNED MUBARAKSHAH IBN 'ABDULLAH, EASTERN ANATOLIA, DATED AH 754/1353-54 AD

Arabic manuscript on buff paper, the beginning with a series of alternated round and rectangular panels heavily and elegantly illuminated in gold, silver and polychrome and including religious invocations and names of God, flanked at either end by two unusual palmettes filled with bright floral arabesques against a silver and gold ground, followed by six cusped and variant cartouches (haykal) containing a lattice of ghubari, five around central gold illuminated medallions of variant form, a seventh with three small rosettes also filled with ghubari and bordered by a series of alternating long calligraphic and short gold cartouches, followed by the beginning of the Qur'anic text, the Qur'an arranged in a series of roundels in ghubari with gold rosettes in the interstices and contained within ovoid cartouches, the borders a series of alternating regular calligraphic and floral roundels, juz' headings in white thuluth reserved against polychrome panels of various forms, the colophon in white thuluth against gold illuminated ground and outlined by the continuing borders, scribe's name and date below in flowing black naskh, first panel a later Ottoman replacement

51ft.7in. x 4 7/8in. (1572 x 11.9cm.)





Provenance

Djafar Ghazi, Munich



Literature

Tobian Nünlist, ‘Devotion and Protection: Amuletic Scrolls Dating from the 14th Century: A Contribution with Special Consideration of Is 1624 (Dublin)’, in Bethany J. Walker and Abdelkader Al Ghouz (eds.), Living with Nature and Things. Contributions to a New Social History of the Middle Islamic Periods, Bonn, 2020, pp.475-533.



Tobian Nünlist, ‘Dokumente in Rollenform aus dem 14.-19.Jh‘, in Heinrich Biesterfeldt and Sebastian Günther, Islamic History and Civilisation, Vol.185, Leiden, 2020, pp.465-68
Place of origin:Asia, Turkey
Auction house category:Letters, documents and manuscripts
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