A QUR`AN SECTION

Lot 14
01.05.2025 11:00UTC +01:00
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£ 75 600
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ID 1404781
Lot 14 | A QUR'AN SECTION
Estimate value
£ 70 000 – 100 000
A QUR'AN SECTION
ILKHANID IRAN, LATE 13TH/EARLY 14TH CENTURY
Comprising approximately the first half of the Qur'an, Arabic manuscript on paper, 356ff., each with 7ll. distinctive black muhaqqaq, tashkeel in red ink, gold and red rosette verse markers, Persian interlinear translation, the margins plain with illuminated medallions to mark divisions, sura titles in white thuluth against a gold illuminated panel with marginal pendant, some missing folios and damage to pages, in blind tooled brown leather binding with flap
Folio 15 3/8 x 11 ¾in. (39.1 x 29.7cm.)




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Djafar Ghazi (d. 2007)
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