Enrica Medugno
Senior Sale Coordinator
Property from a private collection of Islamic and Indian Art
Lot 97•
A large illuminated Qur'an section (Juz' I) Herat or Ottoman Turkey, late 16th Century
23 May 2023, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £28,160 inc. premium
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A large illuminated Qur'an section (Juz' I)
Herat or Ottoman Turkey, late 16th Century
Herat or Ottoman Turkey, late 16th Century
Arabic manuscript on paper, 32 leaves, 15 lines to the page, first and last lines of text on each page written in bold thuluth in black ink (except for the word Allah which is picked out in gold), the eighth line on each page written in large muhaqqaq in gold, remainder of text on each page written in smaller naskhi script in black ink, diacritics and vowel points in black and red, the word Allah picked out in gold throughout, gold discs decorated with blue and red dots between verses, illuminated circular devices in margins, naskhi text flanked with panels decorated with scrolling motifs, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, one double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold with the text on those pages written in elegant muhaqqaq in gold, sura headings written in Eastern kufic in white within gold cartouches decorated with scrolling foliage in green, last page with a colophon added at a later date fancifully stating that the manuscript is in the hand of Ahmad ibn Suhrawardi, a pupil of Yaqut al-Musta'simi, written by Abdullah, 19th Century Persian lacquer binding, doublures 20th Century in Qajar style
392 x 255 mm.
392 x 255 mm.
Footnotes
Provenance
Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 16th October 2003, lot 134.
Private UK collection.