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Lot 36

An illuminated Qur'an
North India, Kashmir, late 18th/19th century

12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street

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An illuminated Qur'an
North India, Kashmir, late 18th/19th century

Arabic manuscript on paper, 395 leaves, 11 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, interlinear Persian translation written in small nasta'liq script in red, inner margins ruled in gold and blue, verse-endings marked by gold roundels, double-page illuminated frontispiece, sura headings written in red within cloudbands on a gold ground, gold and polychrome verse markers in the margins, five further double pages with borders decorated with interlacing gold scrolls, light brown stamped binding
310 x 205 mm.

Footnotes

Provenance
The Shakerine Collection.

Literature
N. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 102-105, no. 21.

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