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£ 94 500
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26.10.2023 10:30UTC +01:00
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ID 1033079
Lot 95 | QUR'AN
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SULTANATE INDIA, 15TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on paper, 501ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll. of elegant black muhaqqaq, the first, sixth and last line written in a much larger (jali) script, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, set within blue and gold rules, gold marginal annotations and illuminated medallions indicating divisions of text, sura headings in gold thuluth in illuminated cartouche bands, opening bifolium with 6ll. of black muhaqqaq reserved against pink ground within gold and polychrome illuminations, in red leather gilt binding, the doublures of marbled paper

Text panel 8 ¼ x 5 3/8in. (20.9 x 13.6cm.); folio 11 ¼ x 7 7/8in. (28.5 x 19.9cm.)





Provenance

Anon sale, Christie's London, 1 May 2001, lot 19



Literature

Éloïse Brac de La Perrière, L’art du livre dans l’Inde des sultanats, Paris, 2008, p.142,, fig. 44 and 45.
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