QUR`AN

Starting price
£ 12 000
Auction dateClassic
25.04.2024 10:00UTC +01:00
Auctioneer
CHRISTIE'S
Event location
United Kingdom, London
Archive
The auction is completed. No bids can be placed anymore.
Archive
ID 1178464
Lot 66 | QUR'AN
QUR'AN

SIGNED SULAYMAN AL-ISFAHANI, SAFAVID IRAN, LATE 16TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on paper, 430ff. plus seven flyleaves, each folio with 9ll. black naskh, gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth reserved against gold cusped cartouches set within polychrome panels, set within gold and polychrome rules, the margins plain with illuminated medallions to mark divisions, the opening bifolio with 9ll. reserved against gold cloudbands set within gold and polychrome illuminated margins, the colophon signed with the final page moved and pasted to f.1r, in later burgundy binding, the doublures paper, minor restorations

Text panel 7 x 4 ¾in. (17.9 x 12.2cm.); folio 10 1⁄8 x 7 ½in. (25.8 x 19.1cm.)





Provenance

Collection of Madame Z sold Etude Tajan, Paris, 9 June 1995, lot 89, when purchased by the current owner
Address of auction CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
United Kingdom
Preview
25.04.2024 – 25.04.2024
Phone +44 (0)20 7839 9060
Email
Buyer Premium see on Website
Conditions of purchaseConditions of purchase

Related terms