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Lot 86
26.10.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 6 300
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ID 1033131
Lot 86 | QUR'AN
Estimate value
£ 6 000 – 8 000
QUR'AN

COPIED BY 'ALI AKBAR, QAJAR IRAN, DATED END OF SHABAN AH 1231/JULY 1816 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 206ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 18ll. of black naskh, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, within black and gold rules, catchwords, the margins with illuminated medallions marking divisions, sura titles in red thuluth reserved against gold bands, opening bifolium illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 7ll. of text in clouds on a gold ground, the colophon signed and dated, in contemporaneous lacquer binding, brown leather case with flap and clasp

Text panel 5 ½ x 3 ¼in. (14 x 8cm.); folio 7 ¾ x 4 ¾in. (19.3 x 12.3 cm.)

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