ID 1306507
Лот 141 | FOLIOS FROM A MONUMENTAL BIHARI QUR'AN
Оценочная стоимость
£ 20 000 – 30 000
SULTANATE INDIA, PROBABLY 15TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 49ff. plus four flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. black bihari script, the word 'Allah' picked out in gold, gold rosette verse roundels, with seven sura headings of which five are in white thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated panels and two in larger gold thuluth, text panels within blue and red rules, the inner margins with alternative readings in blue and red bihari, 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 green leather, some water damage to folios
Text panel 14 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, from which acquired by the present owner
| 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 |
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