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Lot 106
01.05.2025 11:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1404631
Lot 106 | QUR'AN
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£ 15 000 – 20 000
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SIGNED MUHAMMAD BIN 'ABDULLAH NISHAPURI AL-ANSARI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED SHAWWAL AH 948/JANUARY-FEBRUARY 1542 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 395ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 11ll. of neat black naskh on gold sprinkled ground, within black, blue and gold rules, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, foliate illuminated marginal medallions, hizb, rab'a hisb, juz' and nisf juz' in red thuluth, sura headings in white thuluth on gold ground within an illuminated cartouche, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 5ll. of text, colophon signed and dated, with later owner's notes and seal impression, some marginal staining and repair, in dark green morocco with flap, decorated with central stamped medallion and spandrels all with elegant scrolling, flowering vine on gold ground, the brown morocco doublures with central cusped découpé gold medallion

Text panel 5 ¾ x 3 ½in. (14.7 x 8.7cm.); folio 9 ½ x 6in. (24 x 15cm.)
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