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QUR`AN

Lot 123
01.05.2025 11:00UTC +01:00
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AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 1404799
Lot 123 | QUR'AN
Estimate value
£ 50 000 – 70 000
QUR'AN
THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MUSTAFA AL-HALIMI, THE ILLUMINATION SIGNED HAJJI HAFIZ MUHAMMAD NURI EFENDI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1214 / 1799-1800 AD
Arabic manuscript on burnished paper, 329ff. plus three flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. of fine black naskh, tajwid in red, varied elaborate gold pricked rosette verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth against gold cartouches within coloured frames, in broad gold borders, the margins plain with occasional illuminated medallions or short du'as, the opening bifolio with 6ll. black naskh set within margins richly illuminated in gold and polychrome, the subsequent bifolio with gold stencilled margins, the colophon signed and dated, closing with du'a al-khatm, gold stencilled illumination to final folio, in contemporaneous fine-tooled mahogany morocco with flap, the doublures red leather with trellis design containing quatrefoil clusters, in contemporaneous gilt-tooled slip case
Text panel 4 ¾ x 2 7/8in. (11.9 x 7.3cm.); folio 6 7/8 x 4 ¼in. (17.4 x 10.9cm.)




Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby’s London, 14th December 1987, lot 240
A Private Collection Donated to Benefit Oxford University, Christie's London, 26 April 2012, lot 51
Place of origin:Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey
Auction house category:Books and manuscripts, Arms & Armor
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