QUR’AN

Lot 35
27.04.2023 10:00UTC +00:00
Classic
Prix de départ
£ 60 000
AuctioneerCHRISTIE'S
Lieu de l'événementRoyaume-Uni, London
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Lot 35 | QUR’AN
Valeur estimée
£ 60 000 – 80 000
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SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, THIRD QUARTER 16TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 293ff. plus five flyleaves, each folio with 12ll. black naskh within gold and polychrome rules, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in white on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, gold and polychrome marginal medallions, red marginal notations to mark hizb, sajda, nisf and juz’, occasional marginal notations, opening bifolium with large gold and polychrome paired shamsas, followed by an impressive double carpet-page, followed by a bifolium with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece and text in clouds reserved against a gold ground, a prayer following the text with an illuminated headpiece, in contemporaneous binding with tooled and gilt panel, doublures with découpé medallion and spandrels

Text panel 9 1/8 x 3 3/8in. (23.3 x 13.5cm.); folio 14 3/8 x 8 7/8in. (36.5 x 22.5cm.)





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