THE SHAKERINE COLLECTION: Calligraphy in Qur’ans and other Manuscripts
THE SHAKERINE COLLECTION: Calligraphy in Qur’ans and other Manuscripts
TWO QUR’AN LEAVES IN BIHARI SCRIPT, INDIA, SULTANATE, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY
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October 23, 11:03 AM GMT
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1,500 - 2,000 GBP
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TWO QUR’AN LEAVES IN BIHARI SCRIPT, INDIA, SULTANATE, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY
leaf with 13 lines: surah al-Isra’ (XVII), vv.8-16
leaf with 15 lines: surah al-Haj (XXII), vv.2-9
Arabic manuscript on paper, one leaf: 13 lines to the page, the first, middle and last written in gold thuluth-style, the rest in Bihari in black and blue, interlinear in red nasta’liq, one blue tear drop-shaped verse marker in the margin; the other leaf: 15 lines to the page, written in black Bihari, the word Allah written in red, with tear drop-shaped verse markers in blue, orange, red and green in the margin, both leaves ruled in red and blue and verses separated by gold and blue rosettes
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leaf with 13 lines: 35 by 25cm.
leaf with 15 lines: 53 by 29.5cm.
Leaf with 13 lines: sold in these rooms, 28 April 1981, lot 189.
The smaller leaf, with thirteen lines to the page, is unusual as it combines two scripts, Bihari and a style of thuluth written in gold. Another set of pages probably from the same Qur’an is in the Library of Congress, Washington (inv.no.20540, published on the World Digital Library, https://www.wdl.org/en/item/6783/#q=koran&qla=en).