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Lot 191

A Chinese Qur'an juz  China, 16th-17th century,  Arabic manuscript on paper, 58ff., with 5ll. of...

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Lot 191

A Chinese Qur'an juz 

China, 16th-17th century, 
Arabic manuscript on paper, 58ff., with 5ll. of...

Price Realised: £2,362

Estimate: £1,000 - £1,500

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Lot 191

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A Chinese Qur'an juz 


China, 16th-17th century, 

Arabic manuscript on paper, 58ff., with 5ll. of black Sini script to the page, with gold rosette verse markers, gold verse headers, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome decoration , marginal decorations in the Abbasid style, lacking binding, prayers to front covers, 

Folio 25.6 x 29cm

Provenance: Private London Collection formed in the 1970s and 1980s

Marcus Fraser relates this historical context to the establishment of codicological trends within Muslim China, and notably the influence of Central Asian Qur’ans of the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries in terms of calligraphy, layout and illumination. The significant migration of Central Asian Muslims into China would have conceivably corresponded with the transfer of Central Asian Qur’an manuscripts, along with the movement of calligraphers and illuminators trained in the Central Asian tradition (for a full discussion, see Fraser 2022, pp.180-199).

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