QUR`AN

Lot 76
24.10.2024 10:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Prix de départ
£ 60 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 1306465
Lot 76 | QUR'AN
Valeur estimée
£ 60 000 – 80 000
QUR'AN
SIGNED MUHAMMAD BIN SHAMS AL-DIN MUHAMMAD AL-YAZDI, SAFAVID HERAT, DATED RABI I AH 966/DECEMBER - JANUARY 1588-89 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 349ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. of which the first and final are in lapis muhaqqaq, the middle in gold muhaqqaq, and the remainder in black naskh with some notation in red, gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth in gold cartouches within blue illuminated panel, the black script with illuminated medallions and spandrels to each side, in gold and polychrome rules, catchwords, the margins plain with illuminated medallions to mark divisions within blue outer rules, opening bifolio with 6ll. naskh reserved against a gold field with densely illuminated margins, colophon signed, and dated, in contemporaneous gilt stamped brown leather binding, doublures with blue decoupé medallion and spandrels, watermarks to edges of paper
Text panel 5 7/8 x 3 ½in. (15 x 8.8cm.); folio 8 7/8 x 5 ½in. (22.5 x 14cm.)




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With Dutch trade by 1995, from which acquired by the current owner
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