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Property from the Shakerine Collection
Lot 40•,R
An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Abdullah bin Ali Naqi Ahmed Persia, dated Rabi' I 1239/November-December 1823
12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond StreetSold for £2,304 inc. premium
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An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Abdullah bin Ali Naqi Ahmed
Persia, dated Rabi' I 1239/November-December 1823
Persia, dated Rabi' I 1239/November-December 1823
Arabic manuscript on paper, 269 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 15 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink, Persian interlinear translation in shikasteh in red, inner margins ruled in black and gold, verse-endings marked by gold and polychrome rosettes, sura headings written in riqa' script in red on a gold ground within cartouches, gold and polychrome verse markers in the margins, opening double-page illuminated frontispiece, later Qajar marginal texts (on the benefits of reciting each sura) in shikasteh within gold cartouches, main text followed by invocations and prayers in riqa', in floral lacquer binding
225 x 150 mm.
225 x 150 mm.
Footnotes
Provenance
The Shakerine Collection.
Literature
N. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, no. 8, pp. 54-55.
The date in the colophon has been changed from 1239 to 1139.
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