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Lot 44•,R
Twenty-nine illuminated Qur'an ajza', copied by Muhammad Sadiq al-Husaini al-Yazdi Qajar Persia, dated AH 1243/AD 1827-28(29)
12 November 2024, 11:00 GMT
London, New Bond Street£15,000 - £20,000
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Twenty-nine illuminated Qur'an ajza', copied by Muhammad Sadiq al-Husaini al-Yazdi
Qajar Persia, dated AH 1243/AD 1827-28
Qajar Persia, dated AH 1243/AD 1827-28
Arabic manuscript on paper, each volume with 12 lines to the page written in naskhi in black ink, inner margins ruled in red, green, gold and blue, verse-endings marked by illuminated rosettes, sura headings in white or blue or pink riqa' against a gold ground within polychrome cartouches, illuminated marginal devices marking hisb, the illuminated opening double pages of each juz' decorated with a gold and polychrome border of interlacing flowers and an illuminated heading, juz I with a double-page opening illuminated frontispiece, green leather binding
257 x 167 mm.(29)
257 x 167 mm.(29)
Footnotes
Provenance
The Shakerine Collection.
Literature
N. Safwat, A Collector's Eye: Islamic calligraphy in Qur'ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, pp. 62-63, no. 11.
For a Qajar Qur'an in thirty sections, with fitted case and dated AH 1271/AD 1854-55, see Christie's, Art of the Islamic and Indian Worlds, 21st April 2016, lot 120. For another comparable set, in sixty volumes and dated AH 1258-59/AD 1842-44, in a lacquered wood box, see Sotheby's, Arts of the Islamic World, 1st May 2019, lot 52.
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