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Auction archive: Lot number 266

A LARGE MUGHAL QUR'AN

Estimate
£50,000 - £80,000
ca. US$81,782 - US$130,852
Price realised:
£157,250
ca. US$257,205
Auction archive: Lot number 266

A LARGE MUGHAL QUR'AN

Estimate
£50,000 - £80,000
ca. US$81,782 - US$130,852
Price realised:
£157,250
ca. US$257,205
Beschreibung:

A LARGE MUGHAL QUR'AN
INDIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
A LARGE MUGHAL QUR'AN INDIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 586ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. of elegant black muhaqqaq in clouds reserved against gold ground, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, text panels within gold, black and blue borders, folios with outer borders in red with gold scrolling illumination, later catchwords, sura headings in white on gold cartouches with colourful polychrome floral spandrels and borders, gold and polychrome marginal medallions marking nisf and juz' , first and final bifolios of the Qur'an with extremely fine illumination framing text contained in floral illuminated clouds reserved against gold ground with further illumination, middle bifolio of the Qur'an similarly illuminated, remargined, some repairs to margins, in modern brown morocco with gilt stamped central medallion and borders, plain morocco doublures Text panel 11¼ x 5 3/8in. (28.6 x 13.6cm.); folio 18 3/8 x 11¼in. (46.5 x 28.6cm.)

Auction archive: Lot number 266
Auction:
Datum:
7 Apr 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
7 April 2011, London, King Street
Beschreibung:

A LARGE MUGHAL QUR'AN
INDIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
A LARGE MUGHAL QUR'AN INDIA, LATE 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 586ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. of elegant black muhaqqaq in clouds reserved against gold ground, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, text panels within gold, black and blue borders, folios with outer borders in red with gold scrolling illumination, later catchwords, sura headings in white on gold cartouches with colourful polychrome floral spandrels and borders, gold and polychrome marginal medallions marking nisf and juz' , first and final bifolios of the Qur'an with extremely fine illumination framing text contained in floral illuminated clouds reserved against gold ground with further illumination, middle bifolio of the Qur'an similarly illuminated, remargined, some repairs to margins, in modern brown morocco with gilt stamped central medallion and borders, plain morocco doublures Text panel 11¼ x 5 3/8in. (28.6 x 13.6cm.); folio 18 3/8 x 11¼in. (46.5 x 28.6cm.)

Auction archive: Lot number 266
Auction:
Datum:
7 Apr 2011
Auction house:
Christie's
7 April 2011, London, King Street
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