Lot
88
Lot 88
"A TIMURID /HERAT QUR’AN SECTION 15TH /16TH CENTURY IRAN" Q...
Estimate
£7,000 - £10,000
"A TIMURID /HERAT QUR’AN SECTION
15TH /16TH CENTURY
IRAN"
Qur’an i. sura al Fatiha
Qur’an sura al-Baqara v.1-v. 91, v,283part-v.286
Arabic manuscript on paper, 11 leaves, 9 lines of black rayhani script, underlined Persian translation in red nastaliq, lobbed gold verse markers with multicoloured dots, text outlined with black thick gold and blue rules, marginal words in gold, opening bifolio nicely illuminated in gold and polychrome, opening text written gold rayhani outlined with black in clouds reserved on scrolling vines, framed with flowers and guilloche, sura titles in white thuluth reserved on gold plain ground,unbound, overall good condition
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