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Lot 117
26.10.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 15 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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Lot 117 | QUR'AN
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£ 15 000 – 25 000
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SIGNED HAFIZ IBRAHIM AL-KARAHISARI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1227/1812-13 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 324ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 15II. of black Ottoman naskh, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, within gold and black rules, catchwords, illuminated marginal medallions, sura headings in white thuluth set within gold cartouche bands, the opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination enclosing 7ll. black naskh, colophon signed and dated and set within gold illuminated circular frame, closing with du'as, in contemporaneous gilt leather binding with flap, the doublures pink paper with gold rules

Text panel 4 x 2 ¼in. (10.1 x 5.8cm.); folio 5 ¾ x 4 ¾in. (14.6 x 9.7cm.)

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