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Lot 218•
An illuminated Qur'an copied by 'Ali al-Turabi better known as Rihan-zadeh al-'Ala'i, a pupil of Muhammad Shukri and 'Ali al-Misri, who is buried in Constantinople Ottoman Turkey, provincial, early 19th Century
18 June 2013, 11:00 BST
London, KnightsbridgeSold for £1,750 inc. premium
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An illuminated Qur'an copied by 'Ali al-Turabi better known as Rihan-zadeh al-'Ala'i, a pupil of Muhammad Shukri and 'Ali al-Misri, who is buried in Constantinople
Ottoman Turkey, provincial, early 19th Century
Ottoman Turkey, provincial, early 19th Century
Arabic manuscript on cream-coloured paper, 290 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black and red, gold discs decorated with alternating red and blue dots between verses, inner margins ruled in black, blue and gold, catchwords, illuminated devices in wide outer borders, sura headings written in thuluth script in white, some words now oxidised, one double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, detached, edges frayed, creased, rather browned, short tears, some crude repairs, contemporary brown morocco, covers decorated with a diaper pattern tooled in gold, worn, doublures and flyleaves of embossed patterned black paper, worn, crudely rebacked
155 x 103 mm.
155 x 103 mm.
Footnotes
The colophon states that this is the thirty-third Qur'an manuscript copied by the scribe. An unusual feature is that the colophon gives the number of suras as 114, the number of verses as 6666, and the number of sajdas as 14, in red ink.