FOLIOS FROM A MONUMENTAL BIHARI QUR`AN

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25.04.2024 10:00UTC +01:00
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Lot 86 | FOLIOS FROM A MONUMENTAL BIHARI QUR'AN
FOLIOS FROM A MONUMENTAL BIHARI QUR'AN

SULTANATE INDIA, PROBABLY 15TH CENTURY

Comprising various non-sequential parts of the Qur'an, Arabic manuscript on paper, 61ff. plus four flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. black bihari script, the word 'Allah' picked out in gold, gold rosette verse roundels, sura headings in white thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated panels, text panels within blue and red rules, the inner margins with blue and red bihari notes, the outer margins with Persian tafsir commentary set diagonally, with large gold and polychrome marginal medallions to mark divisions, catchwords, in later tooled red morocco binding, the doublures blind-tooled leather, some water damage to folios

Text panel 11 ¾ x 8 ½in. (37.4 x 21.6cm.); folio 21 ½ x 14 1⁄8in. (54.6 x 35.8cm.)





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Dutch trade by 1998
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