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£ 35 280
Date de l'enchèreClassic
31.03.2022 10:30UTC +01:00
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CHRISTIE'S
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Royaume-Uni, London
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ID 727152
Lot 112 | QUR'AN
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SIGNED AHMAD AL-INFIRADI, OTTOMAN MECCA, DATED RABI' I AH 933/DECEMBER 1526 - JANUARY 1527 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 263ff., plus two flyleaves, each folio with 19ll. of black naskh, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, within gold and polychrome rules, sura headings in gold, the start of each juz' marked with a bifolio with text in a gold and polychrome illuminated frame, 'ashr markers in red, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated shamsas with dedication to the library of Ridwan Pasha, dated, the following bifolio illuminated in gold and polchrome framing 7ll. of text in clouds reserved against a pink-hatched ground, colophon signed and dated, partially rubbed, in stamped brown morocco with flap

Text panel 5 x 2 1⁄2in. (12.6 x 6.3cm.); folio 6 3⁄4 x 3 1⁄2in. (17 x 9cm.)







Provenance

Private collection, USA, since the early 1980s and thence by descent





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