AN ILLUMINATED MINIATURE QUR’AN IN FITTED BOX, PERSIA, QAJAR, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
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October 23, 04:16 PM GTNN
Estimate
4,000 - 6,000 GBP
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AN ILLUMINATED MINIATURE QUR’AN IN FITTED BOX, PERSIA, QAJAR, FIRST HALF 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 218 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 20 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in black and gold, verses separated by gold and polychrome rosettes, surah headings in gold riqa' against a blue ground within cartouches, gold and polychrome verse markers in the margins, marginal texts in shikasteh within clouds against a gold ground, f.2b and 216b with a double-page spread of illumination consisting of a central lobed panel with gold naskh against a blue ground, f.3b and 4a with an illuminated frontispiece, in lacquer binding decorated with flowers, with fitted leather box
8.6 by 5.4cm.
For a comparable miniature Qur’an see the Nasser David Khalili collects ion (inv.no.QUR467, published in Bayani, Roger and Stanley 2009, pp.262-3).