ID 1033230
Lot 51 | AN EASTERN KUFIC QUR'AN SECTION
Estimate value
£ 80 000 – 120 000
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.)
Provenance
By repute Private Collection, London, since circa 1990
| Art style: | Abbasid (750-940) |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts |
| Art style: | Abbasid (750-940) |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |||||
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