Friday 28 April 2023
A Sultanate Qur'an juz, India, 15th or early 16th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 20ff....
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A Sultanate Qur'an juz, India, 15th or early 16th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, 20ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 6ll. of black-outlined gold naskh in two text blocks alternated with 3ll. of gold-outlined blue thuluth, gold verse markers, gold and polychrome medallion markers, sura headings in gold naskh within blue or red cartouches, the margins restored, occasional water staining, in stamped brown morocco, folio 26.9 x 21cm.
Provenance: Private collection London formed in the 1960s-1980s
Lot Footnotes
For another juz from this qur'an see Christie's 21 April 2016, Lot 5.
A related Quran with similar illumination was sold at Christie's, 8 April 2008, lot 274.
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