QUR`AN

Lot 39
27.04.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Vendu
£ 25 200
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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ID 932110
Lot 39 | QUR'AN
Valeur estimée
£ 10 000 – 15 000
QUR'AN

WITH ADDED COLOPHON IN THE NAME OF YA'QUT AL-MUTA'SIMI, BAGHDAD SCHOOL, LATE 13TH/14TH CENTURY; IN LATER SAFAVID REMARGINED AND ILLUMINATED BORDERS

Arabic manuscript on buff paper, 333ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script per page, text panels within gold and polychrome rules, gold rosette verse markers, remargined with burnished cream paper, occasional commentary, gold thuluth marking divisions, sura headings in gold thuluth, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 6ll. of text in clouds reserved against gold ground, the colophon signed and dated, fly-leaves with later owner's notes, in nineteenth century lacquer binding, the doublures red leather, with green fabric book cloth

Text panel 4 3/8 x 3 1/8in. (11.5 x 7.8cm.); folio 9 1/8 x 6 1/8in. (23.2 x 15.4cm.)





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Adresse de l'enchère CHRISTIE'S
8 King Street, St. James's
SW1Y 6QT London
Royaume-Uni
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