THE SHAKERINE COLLECTION: Calligraphy in Qur’ans and other Manuscripts
THE SHAKERINE COLLECTION: Calligraphy in Qur’ans and other Manuscripts
TWENTY-NINE ILLUMINATED QUR’AN AJZA', COPIED BY MUHAMMED SADIQ AL-HUSAINI AL-YAZDI, PERSIA, QAJAR, DATED 1243 AH/1827-28 AD
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October 23, 11:03 AM GMT
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25,000 - 35,000 GBP
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TWENTY-NINE ILLUMINATED QUR’AN AJZA', COPIED BY MUHAMMED SADIQ AL-HUSAINI AL-YAZDI, PERSIA, QAJAR, DATED 1243 AH/1827-28 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, each volume with 12 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in red, green, gold and blue, verses separated by gold and polychrome rosettes, surah headings in white or blue or pink riqa’ against a gold ground within polychrome cartouches, gold and polychrome hisb markers in the margins, the illuminated opening double pages of each juz’ decorated with a gold and polychrome border of interlacing flowers and an illuminated heading, juz' I with an opening illuminated frontispiece, in green leather binding
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text panel: 16.7 by 9.3cm.
leaf: 24.9 by 16cm.
N. Safwat, A Collector’s Eye. Islamic calligraphy in Qur’ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, no.11, pp.62-63.
A Qur'an in thirty sections, with fitted case and dated 1271 AH/1854-55 AD, sold at Christie's London, 21 April 2016, lot 120. Another comparable set, in sixty volumes and dated 1258-59 AH/1842-44 AD sold in these rooms, 1 May 2019, lot 52.