ID 1404716
Lot 53 | QUR'AN
Estimate value
£ 10 000 – 15 000
COPIED FOR AQA'I AQA MIRZA NASRULLAH, SIGNED MIRZA MUHAMMAD 'ALI KHANSARI AND MUHAMMAD 'ALI ISFAHANI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1278 / 1861-2 AD
Arabic manuscript on burnished paper, 315ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. fine black naskh, tashkeel in red ink, gold rosette verse makers, sura headings in gold thuluth against gold and polychrome illuminated panels, set within red and gold rules, the margins plain with annotations in cartouches at the beginning of each sura, sura title in illuminated palmettes in upper corner of each folio, catchwords, illuminated marginal pendants to indicate divisions, the opening and closing bifolios with cusped medallions of gold thuluth, the following bifolio with 6ll. black naskh with densely illuminated and pricked panels above and below and illuminated margins, the following folio with the text reserved against gold cloudbands, colophon signed and dated, in contemporaneous lacquer binding, red lacquer doublures with gold stencilling
Text panel 7 1/8 x 4 3/8in. (18.2 x 11.2cm.); folio 10 ½ x 6 5/8in. (26.6 x 16.7cm.)
Provenance
Private American collection by 1997
| Historical era: | Qajar dynasty |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Books and manuscripts, Arms & Armor |
| Historical era: | Qajar dynasty |
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| Place of origin: | Iran, Asia |
| Auction house category: | Books and manuscripts, Arms & Armor |
| Address of auction |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London United Kingdom | |
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