ID 1306474
Lot 14 | MUHAMMAD BIN ISMA'IL AL-BUKHARI (D.870 AD): SAHIH AL-BUKHARI (PART VIII)
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
HAFSID TUNISIA, SECOND HALF 15TH CENTURY
Hadith, Arabic manuscript on paper, 112ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. of brown <i>maghribi</i>, headings and select words in red and blue, the word Allah in gold, stylised gold trefoils with red dots at the edge of the text marking each new section, the opening folio with panel of geometric interlace illumination, title in white ornamental <i>kufic </i>in four blue stars, the final folio with spurious colophon in gold, brown morocco binding with tooled geometric interlace, plain doublures
Folio 10 x 8in. (25 x 20cm.)
Provenance
Christie's London, 27 April 1993, lot 51
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Almohad dynasty (1121-1269) |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Medium: | Acrylic glass, Paper, Plastic |
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| Art style: | Almohad dynasty (1121-1269) |
| Auction house category: | All other types of objects |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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