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Lot 6

An illuminated Qur'an
Mughal, North India, 17th-18th Century

22 May 2025, 11:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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An illuminated Qur'an
Mughal, North India, 17th-18th Century

Arabic manuscript on paper, 421 leaves, 14 lines to the page written in fine naskh script with diacritics and vowel marks in black and red, inner margins ruled in gold, red and blue, verse-endings marked with gold roundels decorated with red and blue dots, juz' divisions, and instructions such as sajdah written in white within gold illuminated marginal devices, sub-divisions within each juz', such as hizb, a third, an eighth and a quarter written in red in outer margins, catchwords, sura headings written in riqa' in red within cloudbands against a gold ground, one double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, double-page illuminated finispiece, binding with embossed gold panels containing repetitions of Qur'an, sura LVI, al-waqi'ah, verse 79 ('which none may touch except the purified')
308 x 190 mm.

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Provenance
Private UK collection since the 1970s.


The manuscript is unusual in that all the attributes of God, and the opening to the instructions to believers are written in red throughout the text.

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