ID 727312
Lot 88 | A PAINTED KHATT-I NAKHUNI (FINGER NAIL) ALBUM OF ASMA' AL-HUSNA
Valeur estimée
£ 8 000 – 12 000
SIGNED 'UQABI, INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Invocations in relief work on cream paper, 15ff. with two flyleaves, 4ll. gold decorative thuluth in khatt-i nakhuni, containing the 99 names of Allah (asma' al-husna) alternating with 4ll. of smaller urdu text in red nasta'liq, which gives the abjad value of the various names, within red, gold and polycrome rules, cream, green, and black margins, illuminated opening bifolio, colophon on penultimate folio destroyed, bound in later European marbled card with "Oriental Album" on the spine
Text panel 7 3⁄4 x 3 3⁄4in. (19.8 x 9.5cm.); folio 9 x 5 1⁄2in. (23 x 14.5cm.)
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