QUR`AN JUZ` I

Lot 15
01.05.2025 11:00UTC +01:00
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ID 1404696
Lot 15 | QUR'AN JUZ' I
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£ 12 000 – 18 000
QUR'AN JUZ' I
PROBABLY IRAN, 13TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 16ff. plus one flyleaf, each folio with 7ll. black naskh, gold rosette verse markers, the margins plain with illuminated roundels to mark divisions, the opening folio with 3ll. within blue and gold illuminated margins, heading in white thuluth reserved against blue cartouche, the closing folio similarly illuminated with gold kufic above and below mentioning a certain 'Abd al-Aziz, in later marbled paper-covered binding, the doublures paper, in fabric pouch, incomplete
6 3/8 x 5 ¼in. (16.2 x 13.4cm.)




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Private London collection since 1990s
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