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An illuminated Qur'an bearing the name of Fath 'Ali Shah, copied by 'Abdullah al-Shirazi, Persia, Tehran, Qajar, dated Ramadan 1248 AH/January-February 1833 AD

Auction Closed

October 27, 03:41 PM GMT

Estimate

15,000 - 20,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Arabic manuscript on paper, 208 leaves, written in neat naskh script in black ink, verses separated by gold roundels, surah headings in gold script on polychrome and gold illuminated panels, margins ruled in colours and gold, illuminated marginal devices, an illuminated shamsa on f.1a, three opening double-pages fully illuminated, f.1b and 2a with a list of surahs, f.2b and 3a with prayers within a central lobed panel, f.3b and 4a with a gold and polychrome frontispiece e with titles in white cursive script, f.208a with colophon, in lacquer binding with text along borders on the outer boards and within central lobed panels

16.7 by 10.4cm.

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inscriptions

Binding, front cover:
(outer band) Qur’an, chapter II (al-Baqarah), verse 255 and a saying of the Prophet.
(central cartouche) Qur’an, chapter XVII (al-Isra’), verse 88 and a saying of the Prophet.

Binding, back cover:
(outer band) Qur’an, chapter XXIV (al-Nur), verse 35 and a saying of the Prophet.
(central cartouche) Qur’an, chapter XVIII (al-Kahf), verse 109 and a saying of the Prophet.

In the small pendants of the covers:
Qur’an, chapter CXII (al-Ikhlas) parts of verses 1 and 2.

Front doublure:
‘During the time of the reign of the most great Sultan, the great king, the Sultan son of Sultan, Fath ’Ali Shah Qajar - may God make his kingdom and his authority eternal - I succeeded the copying it through God, the Bountiful’

Back doublure:
‘This Qur’an and its writing (was done) and I am the poor servant of God, the earth at the feet of the poor, ending in God, ‘Abdullah al-Shirazi in the year one thousand two hundred and forty-eight 1248 (sic) (1832-23) of the Prophet’s Migration.’