Tuesday 30 January 2024
To Be Sold With No Reserve Five folios from a Safavid Qur'an, Iran, late 16th century, Arabic...
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To Be Sold With No Reserve
Five folios from a Safavid Qur'an, Iran, late 16th century, Arabic manuscript on paper, double-sided, each with 10ll. of bold black naskh within orange, blue and gold outer rule, with gold rosette verse markers, polychrome and gold medallions, mounted, folio 34 x 23cm. (5).
Provenance: Property from a Private UK collection formed in the 1960s and 1970s
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