ID 1178500
Лот 86 | FOLIOS FROM A MONUMENTAL BIHARI QUR'AN
Оценочная стоимость
£ 20 000 – 30 000
SULTANATE INDIA, PROBABLY 15TH CENTURY
Comprising various non-sequential parts of the Qur'an, Arabic manuscript on paper, 61ff. plus four flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. black bihari script, the word 'Allah' picked out in gold, gold rosette verse roundels, sura headings in white thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated panels, text panels within blue and red rules, the inner margins with blue and red bihari notes, the outer margins with Persian tafsir commentary set diagonally, with large gold and polychrome marginal medallions to mark divisions, catchwords, in later tooled red morocco binding, the doublures blind-tooled leather, some water damage to folios
Text panel 11 ¾ x 8 ½in. (37.4 x 21.6cm.); folio 21 ½ x 14 1⁄8in. (54.6 x 35.8cm.)
Provenance
Dutch trade by 1998
| Место происхождения: | Индия, Азия |
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| Категория аукционного дома: | Письма, документы и рукописи, Книги и рукописи |
| Место происхождения: | Индия, Азия |
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| Категория аукционного дома: | Письма, документы и рукописи, Книги и рукописи |
| Адрес торгов |
CHRISTIE'S 8 King Street, St. James's SW1Y 6QT London Великобритания | |
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