FOLIOS FROM A MONUMENTAL BIHARI QUR`AN

Lot 141
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Prix de départ
£ 20 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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Lot 141 | FOLIOS FROM A MONUMENTAL BIHARI QUR'AN
Valeur estimée
£ 20 000 – 30 000
FOLIOS FROM A MONUMENTAL BIHARI QUR'AN
SULTANATE INDIA, PROBABLY 15TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 49ff. plus four flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. black bihari script, the word 'Allah' picked out in gold, gold rosette verse roundels, with seven sura headings of which five are in white thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated panels and two in larger gold thuluth, text panels within blue and red rules, the inner margins with alternative readings in blue and red bihari, the outer margins with Persian tafsir commentary set diagonally, with large gold and polychrome marginal medallions to mark divisions, catchwords, in later tooled red morocco binding, the doublures blind-tooled green leather, some water damage to folios
Text panel 14 ¾ x 8 ½in. (37.4 x 21.6cm.); folio 21 ½ x 14 1/8in. (54.6 x 35.8cm.)




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Dutch trade by 1998, from which acquired by the present owner
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