ID 1306507 
Lot 141  | FOLIOS FROM A MONUMENTAL BIHARI QUR'AN
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000 
SULTANATE INDIA, PROBABLY 15TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 49ff. plus four flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. black bihari script, the word 'Allah' picked out in gold, gold rosette verse roundels, with seven sura headings of which five are in white thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated panels and two in larger gold thuluth, text panels within blue and red rules, the inner margins with alternative readings in blue and red bihari, 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 green leather, some water damage to folios
Text panel 14 ¾ x 8 ½in. (37.4 x 21.6cm.); folio 21 ½ x 14 1/8in. (54.6 x 35.8cm.)
Provenance
Dutch trade by 1998, from which acquired by the present owner
| Place of origin: | India, Asia | 
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| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts, Books and manuscripts | 
| Place of origin: | India, Asia | 
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| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts, Books and manuscripts | 
| Address of auction | 
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom  | |
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