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Lot 3
27.10.2022 10:00UTC +00:00
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£ 22 680
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 828598
Lot 3 | QUR'AN
Valeur estimée
£ 20 000 – 30 000
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OTTOMAN TURKEY, MID 16TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on burnished paper, 258ff. with six flyleaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh within gold and black rules, with gold rosette verse markers, gold script in margins marking 'ashr, sura headings in gold, opening bifolio with blue and gold illumination framing 5ll. of text, in contemporaneous black leather binding with tooled medallion and spandrels and traces of gilding, doublures covered with gold speckled yellow paper

Text panel 9 1/8 x 6in. (23.2 x 15.2cm.); folio 13 3/4 x 10 1/8in. x (34.5 x 25.5cm.)





Provenance

Michel Abemayor (1912-1975), New York



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