ID 1033079
Lot 95 | QUR'AN
Valeur estimée
£ 60 000 – 80 000
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.
| Lieu d'origine: | Inde, Asie |
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| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Lettres, documents et manuscrits |
| Lieu d'origine: | Inde, Asie |
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| Catégorie maison de vente aux enchères: | Lettres, documents et manuscrits |
| Adresse de l'enchère |
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