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Lot 5
27.10.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 30 240
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ID 828835
Lot 5 | QUR'AN
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£ 8 000 – 12 000
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SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on paper, 262ff. plus four flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh, within gold polychrome rules, gold circle verse markers, catchwords, gold marginal annotations marking ashr and juz', sura headings in red and white thuluth on illuminated gold cartouches, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 7ll. of text in clouds against floral gold ground, first and last flyleaves with gold stenciled floral decoration, binding lacking

Text panel 10 1/4 x 5 3/4in. (26.1 x 14.8cm.); folio 15 1/8 x 10 1/2in. (38.3 x 26.7cm.)





Provenance

Michel Abemayor (1912-1975), New York



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