QURAN JUZ` XI

Lot 48
27.10.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 7 000
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Lot 48 | QURAN JUZ' XI
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£ 7 000 – 10 000
QURAN JUZ' XI

SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY

Comprising the eleventh juz', Arabic manuscript on buff paper, 25ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 7ll. of black naskh within gold and polychrome rules, with gold rosette verse markers, gold and blue marginal medallions, sura headings in gold thuluth inside illuminated cartouches, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, purple dyed paper flyleaves, in original Safavid binding with flap with large panel of stamped and tooled gilded decoration worked with calligraphic borders, doublures with gilded decoupé arabesque medallion and spandrels over polychrome panels.

Text panel 4 3/8 x 5 1/2 in. (10.9 x 14.1 cm.); folio 6 7/8 x 9 5/8 in. (17.3 x 24.2 cm.)





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