ID 828627
Lot 30 | MINIATURE QUR'AN
Estimate value
£ 15 000 – 25 000
HERAT, SIGNED MUHAMMAD AL-QARI(?), DATED MUHARRAM AH 963/NOVEMBER 1555 AD
Octagonal format, Arabic manuscript on paper, 427ff. plus four flyleaves each folio with 14ll. of black naskh micrography within blue and gold circular rules, gold circle verse markers, catchwords, sura titles in gold thuluth, the opening bifolium with gold and polychrome sunburst illumination enclosing 6ll. of black naskh, the closing folio with gold drawing, colophon signed and dated, the dark green leather binding with gilt design, the doublures in green dyed paper with plant motifs, in silver octagonal box
Text panel 1 1/4 in. (3.2cm.) diam.; folio 1 3/4in. x 1 3/4in. (4.3cm x 4.3cm.)
Provenance
By repute, Esma Sultan (d.1899), daughter of Sultan Abdulaziz (d.1876), bequeathed to
Huseyin Hayreddine Beyefendi, Istanbul, (d.1956), bequeathed to
Saadeddine Mohamed Beyefendi (d. 1976), bequeathed to
Saadeddine Mohamed Bey Osmansoy (b. 1930)
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| Place of origin: | Middle East, Asia, Ottoman Empire |
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| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts |
| Place of origin: | Middle East, Asia, Ottoman Empire |
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| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts |
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