An Impressive Persian Bookbinding, once used for a Qur'an [Safavid Persia, (probably Tabriz or Shiraz), early sixteenth century] a complete leather binding with spine and flap, covers in identical design with block-stamped central panels of cartouches and corner-pieces with spiralling floral vines in the space between, smaller border panels in the outer edges with thuluth calligraphy, separated out by small floral devices, all stamps and tooling coloured in gold, inner covers with doublures of brown leather, each with centrally scalloped medallions, inlaid with gold filigree work on multi-coloured backgrounds of red blue and black, the same details applied to the corners, 4 flyleaves remaining and attached, covers rebacked in eighteenth-century morocco, doublures a little worn with chips and loss to some of the gold filigree, overall very good and presentable condition, total 770 by 325 mm. (each cover c. 325 by 250 mm.) An exceptionally early Safavid binding, probably commissioned for use as a Qur'anic binding as mentioned in the text adorning the outer covers. Executed in the typical Safavid style with the horizontal split across the centre of the panels, comparable to Haldane's example 90 (Islamic Bookbindings, 1982, p. 92), also from early sixteenth-century Tabriz or Shiraz.
An Impressive Persian Bookbinding, once used for a Qur'an [Safavid Persia, (probably Tabriz or Shiraz), early sixteenth century] a complete leather binding with spine and flap, covers in identical design with block-stamped central panels of cartouches and corner-pieces with spiralling floral vines in the space between, smaller border panels in the outer edges with thuluth calligraphy, separated out by small floral devices, all stamps and tooling coloured in gold, inner covers with doublures of brown leather, each with centrally scalloped medallions, inlaid with gold filigree work on multi-coloured backgrounds of red blue and black, the same details applied to the corners, 4 flyleaves remaining and attached, covers rebacked in eighteenth-century morocco, doublures a little worn with chips and loss to some of the gold filigree, overall very good and presentable condition, total 770 by 325 mm. (each cover c. 325 by 250 mm.) An exceptionally early Safavid binding, probably commissioned for use as a Qur'anic binding as mentioned in the text adorning the outer covers. Executed in the typical Safavid style with the horizontal split across the centre of the panels, comparable to Haldane's example 90 (Islamic Bookbindings, 1982, p. 92), also from early sixteenth-century Tabriz or Shiraz.
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