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Auction archive: Lot number 20

QUR'AN

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,431 - US$2,147
Price realised:
£2,750
ca. US$3,936
Auction archive: Lot number 20

QUR'AN

Estimate
£1,000 - £1,500
ca. US$1,431 - US$2,147
Price realised:
£2,750
ca. US$3,936
Beschreibung:

QUR'AN
MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
QUR'AN MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 371ff. plus nine fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with gold roundel verse markers outlined in black, sura headings in white thuluth script within gold illuminated cartouches, text within blue and black-ruled gold frame, with illuminated marginal medallions, numerous bifolios with gold and polychrome floral marginal markers, opening bifolio illuminated in gold and polychrome, in Indian stamped morocco binding Text panel 4 ¼ x 2 1/8in. (10.9 x 5.4cm.); folio 6 1/8 x 3 ¾in. (15.6 x 9.8cm.)

Auction archive: Lot number 20
Auction:
Datum:
18 Apr 2016
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

QUR'AN
MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY
QUR'AN MUGHAL INDIA, LATE 18TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 371ff. plus nine fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with gold roundel verse markers outlined in black, sura headings in white thuluth script within gold illuminated cartouches, text within blue and black-ruled gold frame, with illuminated marginal medallions, numerous bifolios with gold and polychrome floral marginal markers, opening bifolio illuminated in gold and polychrome, in Indian stamped morocco binding Text panel 4 ¼ x 2 1/8in. (10.9 x 5.4cm.); folio 6 1/8 x 3 ¾in. (15.6 x 9.8cm.)

Auction archive: Lot number 20
Auction:
Datum:
18 Apr 2016
Auction house:
Christie's
London, South Kensington
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