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Auction archive: Lot number 5*

Eight vellum Qur'an leaves from two different manuscripts including an illuminated one-page panel decorated with geometric designs Andalusia or North Africa, 12th/13th Century

Estimate
£0
Price realised:
£2,400
ca. US$4,905
Auction archive: Lot number 5*

Eight vellum Qur'an leaves from two different manuscripts including an illuminated one-page panel decorated with geometric designs Andalusia or North Africa, 12th/13th Century

Estimate
£0
Price realised:
£2,400
ca. US$4,905
Beschreibung:

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 8 leaves, 25 and 27 lines to the page written in small maghribi script in brown ink, vowel points and diacritics in red and blue ink, illuminated markers of various shapes between verses, sura heading written in ornamental kufic with palmettes extending into outer margins, illuminated panel worn with loss of areas of painted surface, edges frayed, some staining 202 x 170 mm. and smaller

Auction archive: Lot number 5*
Auction:
Datum:
25 Oct 2007
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
Beschreibung:

Arabic manuscript on vellum, 8 leaves, 25 and 27 lines to the page written in small maghribi script in brown ink, vowel points and diacritics in red and blue ink, illuminated markers of various shapes between verses, sura heading written in ornamental kufic with palmettes extending into outer margins, illuminated panel worn with loss of areas of painted surface, edges frayed, some staining 202 x 170 mm. and smaller

Auction archive: Lot number 5*
Auction:
Datum:
25 Oct 2007
Auction house:
Bonhams London
London, New Bond Street 101 New Bond Street London W1S 1SR Tel: +44 20 7447 7447 Fax : +44 207 447 7401 info@bonhams.com
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