Enrica Medugno
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Property from the Shakerine Collection
Lot 30
An illuminated Ruzname (almanac or calendar), in scroll form, copied by Sulayman, known as Hikmati Ottoman Turkey, late 18th/early 19th Century
12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£3,000 - £5,000
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An illuminated Ruzname (almanac or calendar), in scroll form, copied by Sulayman, known as Hikmati
Ottoman Turkey, late 18th/early 19th Century
Ottoman Turkey, late 18th/early 19th Century
Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on vellum, text and tables written horizontally and vertically in naskhi script in black and red ink, columns ruled in gold, on a wooden spool with two amber terminals
10.2 x 75 cm. long
10.2 x 75 cm. long
Footnotes
Provenance
The Shakerine Collection.
Literature
N. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 294-295, no. 79.
The same scribe is recorded in a ruzname sold in these rooms, Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 1st May 2003, lot 72 (dated AH 1223/AD 1808). There is another in the John Rylands University Library (see J. Schmidt, A Catalogue of the Turkish Manuscripts in the John Rylands University Library, Leiden 2011, pp. 261-262, no. 157), dated AH 1199 AH/AD 1784-85; and another offered at Christie's, Islamic, Indian, Southeast Asian Manuscripts, Miniatures and Works of Art, 28th November 1983, lot 107, dated AH 1215/AD 1800-01.