THE SHAKERINE COLLECTION: Calligraphy in Qur’ans and other Manuscripts
THE SHAKERINE COLLECTION: Calligraphy in Qur’ans and other Manuscripts
AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN AND A TREATISE ON QUR'ANIC STUDIES AND PRAYERS, COPIED BY 'ABD AL-BARI, KNOWN AS ADAM, AND AHMAD JAWDET, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1132 AH/1719-20 AD AND 1251 AH/1835-36 AD
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AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN AND A TREATISE ON QUR'ANIC STUDIES AND PRAYERS, COPIED BY 'ABD AL-BARI, KNOWN AS ADAM, AND AHMAD JAWDET, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1132 AH/1719-20 AD AND 1251 AH/1835-36 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 434 leaves plus 4 fly-leaves, 14 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in black and gold, verses separated by gold and polychrome dotted roundels, surah headings in gold riqa’ within cartouches, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, in brown gilt and stamped leather binding, with flap
text panel: 11.3 by 5.7cm.
leaf: 18.1 by 11cm.
Sold in these rooms, 28 April 1981, lot 283.
N. Safwat, A Collector’s Eye. Islamic calligraphy in Qur’ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, no.28, pp.126-9.