AN ILLUMINATED QUR`AN JUZ` XXX

Lot 154
27.10.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 154 | AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN JUZ' XXX
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£ 25 000 – 35 000
AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN JUZ' XXX

SIGNED HAFIZ MUHAMMAD AL-WAFA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1231/1815-16 AD

Followed by Qur'an I, sura al-fatiha, Arabic manuscript on paper, 28ff. plus three flyleaves, 9ll. of elegant black naskh, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, text within thick black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, opening bifolio with lavish polychrome and gold rococo-style illuminated margins and headpiece, colophon signed and dated, in contemporaneous brown morocco decorated with gilt floral meander and tooled borders, blue paper doublures painted with gilt decoration, minor marginal repairs, overall good condition

Text panel 53/4 x 31/2in. (14.4 x 8.7cm.); folio 9 3/8 x 61/4in. (23.8 x 15.7cm.)





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The Saeed Motamed Collection



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