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Lot 16
01.05.2025 11:00UTC +01:00
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£ 27 720
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ID 1404725
Lot 16 | QUR'AN
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000
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SELJUK IRAN OR ANATOLIA, CIRCA 1200
Arabic manuscript on paper, 318ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 13ll. angular black naskh, red and yellow rosette verse markers, Persian interlinear translation, sura headings in yellow thuluth, the margins plain with gold and polychrome illuminated medallions, catchwords, sura Maryam opening with 8ll. black naskh with illuminated headpieces above and below, the bismallah occasionally written in kufic-style script, the first 5ff. replaced including opening illumination, in later morocco binding, paper doublures, restoration to pages throughout
Folio 13 3/8 x 9 3/8in. (34.1 x 23.9cm.)




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Private American Collection, 1990s or early 2000s, thence by descent
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