Lot 113
  • 113

An Illuminated Scroll-Form Qur'an in Ghubari Script

Estimate
6,000 - 8,000 USD
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Description

  • 20th century

  • Ink and Gold on Paper

Condition

In very good overall condition, one small tear to the upper edge a third of the way into the scroll, otherwise paper clean and fresh, ink and gold bright, as viewed.
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Catalogue Note

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In micrographic Ghubari script:

Qur'an, forming within it in stylised Kufic script:

asma al-husna, the 'Ninety-Nine Names of God'