EARLY 18TH CENTURY CHARMING INDIAN QUR’AN HYDERABAD OR GOLCO...

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£30,000 - £40,000

EARLY 18TH CENTURY CHARMING INDIAN QUR’AN
HYDERABAD OR GOLCONDA,
MUGHAL INDIA
SIGNED AHMAD BIN MULLA UTHMAN
DATED 1145AH/1732AD Arabic manuscript on paper, 468 folios, 13 lines of black naskh script, sura headings in gold thuluth outlined in black, gold florish verse markers, marginal gold thuluth words; hizb, sajda, juz, diagonal marginal notes in red, sura al-Fatiha and sura -Baqara headings written in white thuluth reserved on gold ground, setin illuminated lapis and gold cartouches, issuing a roundel to the margin outlined with blue, opening bifolio with double carpet page with geometric panels between strapwork bands with calligraphic cartouches above and below, in contemporaneous typical Mamluk geometrical design leather binding.
32 x 25 cm