AN EASTERN KUFIC QUR`AN SECTION

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£ 80 000
Auction dateClassic
26.10.2023 10:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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United Kingdom, London
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ID 1033230
Lot 51 | AN EASTERN KUFIC QUR'AN SECTION
AN EASTERN KUFIC QUR'AN SECTION

PROBABLY IRAN, 11TH/12th CENTURY

Comprising parts of Qur'an II, sura al-baqara and III, sura al-imran with lacunae, Arabic manuscript on paper, 42ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 7ll. of black eastern kufic script, shadda and sukuun in blue and green, diacritics marked by red dots, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, with interlinear Persian translations in black naskh, marginal medallions and pendants indicating khams and ashr, in tooled brown leather binding

Folio 12 1/8 x 8 ¼in. (36 x 21.6cm.)





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By repute Private Collection, London, since circa 1990
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