QUR`AN

Lot 45
01.05.2025 11:00UTC +01:00
Classic
Vendu
£ 63 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 1404745
Lot 45 | QUR'AN
Valeur estimée
£ 70 000 – 100 000
QUR'AN
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, MID-16TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 293ff. plus one watermarked flyleaf, each folio with 12ll. black naskh on gold-speckled paper, tajwid marked in red ink, gold floral verse markers, in gold and polychrome rules, the margins plain with illuminated roundels, sura headings in white thuluth against gold and blue illuminated panels, the opening bifolio with two illuminated shamsas, the following bifolio with sura al-fatiha in white thuluth inside two cusped medallions with floral illumination, against a cobalt-blue field of cloudbands and spiralling vines, the margins illuminated, the following folio with illuminated headpiece and the text reserved against gold illuminated cloudbands, the manuscript closing with dua' al-khatm and an illuminated falnama, in contemporaneous Safavid gilt-tooled leather binding with flap, the doublures with découpé medallions and spandrels
Text panel 9 x 5 3/8in. (23 x 13.6cm.); folio 14 x 8 5/8in. (35.4 x 21.9cm.)
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