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Lot 16•
An illuminated Qur'an copied by Ibrahim Dha'ifi, a pupil of Katani-zadeh Ottoman Turkey, late 18th/19th Century
6 October 2015, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond StreetSold for £15,000 inc. premium
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An illuminated Qur'an copied by Ibrahim Dha'ifi, a pupil of Katani-zadeh
Ottoman Turkey, late 18th/19th Century
Ottoman Turkey, late 18th/19th Century
Arabic manuscript on cream-coloured paper, 62 leaves, 39 lines to the page written in small and elegant naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and black, gold discs between verses, inner margins ruled in red, black and gold, catchwords, illuminated devices in wide outer borders, sura headings written in white (now oxidised) on gold ground within rectangular panels, illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, edges frayed and repaired, some waterstaining restricted to outer margins, contemporary brown morocco, covers decorated with elaborate gilt central medallions incorporating intertwining vegetal motifs and serrated leaves, doublures of pink paper decorated with gilt floral sprays, with flap, upper cover detached, rebacked
218 x 140 mm.
218 x 140 mm.
Footnotes
An interesting feature of this Qur'an manuscript is that every line of text starts with the letter alif, beginning from sura al-An'am.