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Auction archive: Lot number 148

THE FORTY SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET WITH PERSIAN TRANSLATION BY...

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,804 - US$8,007
Price realised:
£3,500
ca. US$5,605
Auction archive: Lot number 148

THE FORTY SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET WITH PERSIAN TRANSLATION BY...

Estimate
£3,000 - £5,000
ca. US$4,804 - US$8,007
Price realised:
£3,500
ca. US$5,605
Beschreibung:

THE FORTY SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET WITH PERSIAN TRANSLATION BY JAMI
SIGNED 'ARAB MUHAMMAD AL-HARAWI, SAMARQAND, TIMURID CENTRAL ASIA, 15TH/EARLY16TH CENTURY
THE FORTY SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET WITH PERSIAN TRANSLATION BY JAMI SIGNED 'ARAB MUHAMMAD AL-HARAWI, SAMARQAND, TIMURID CENTRAL ASIA, 15TH/EARLY16TH CENTURY Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 8ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 3ll. of large black thuluth script divided by lines of smaller black nasta'liq script written horizontally or on the diagonal, each line within black-ruled gold cartouches, text within black, gold and green frame, with coloured paper margins, first folio with nasta'liq quatrain, last folio with calligraphic exercise, in marbled paper covers with tulips over brown ground Text panel 6 1/8 x 3½in. (15.4 x 8.7cm.); folio 9¾ x 6in. (24.5 x 15.2cm.)

Auction archive: Lot number 148
Auction:
Datum:
23 Apr 2012
Auction house:
Christie's
23 April 2012, London, South Kensington
Beschreibung:

THE FORTY SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET WITH PERSIAN TRANSLATION BY JAMI
SIGNED 'ARAB MUHAMMAD AL-HARAWI, SAMARQAND, TIMURID CENTRAL ASIA, 15TH/EARLY16TH CENTURY
THE FORTY SAYINGS OF THE PROPHET WITH PERSIAN TRANSLATION BY JAMI SIGNED 'ARAB MUHAMMAD AL-HARAWI, SAMARQAND, TIMURID CENTRAL ASIA, 15TH/EARLY16TH CENTURY Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 8ff. plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 3ll. of large black thuluth script divided by lines of smaller black nasta'liq script written horizontally or on the diagonal, each line within black-ruled gold cartouches, text within black, gold and green frame, with coloured paper margins, first folio with nasta'liq quatrain, last folio with calligraphic exercise, in marbled paper covers with tulips over brown ground Text panel 6 1/8 x 3½in. (15.4 x 8.7cm.); folio 9¾ x 6in. (24.5 x 15.2cm.)

Auction archive: Lot number 148
Auction:
Datum:
23 Apr 2012
Auction house:
Christie's
23 April 2012, London, South Kensington
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