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Lot 55
07.04.2021 11:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Starting price
£ 11 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Event locationUnited Kingdom, London
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ID 510258
Lot 55 | QUR'AN
Estimate value
£ 12 000 – 18 000
Arabic manuscript on paper, 197ff., plus nine flyleaves, 19ll. of black naskh, tajwid in red, within gold and black rules with gold foliate illumination, gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in red thuluth on gold in clouds reserved against a gold ground, gold and polychrome marginal medallions marking juz', hizb and sajda, marginal notes in black nasta'liq, catchwords, the opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 6ll. in clouds reserved against a gold ground, colophon signed and dated, a later added index of suras, flyleaves with later owners' notes including a note in the hand of Muzaffir al-Din Shah Qajar dated AH 1323/1905-6 AD, in contemporaneous floral lacquer binding, red lacquer doublures
Text panel 61/2 x 33/4in. (16.5 x 9.5cm.); folio 83/8 x 47/8in. (21.3 x 12.4cm.)
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