A large illuminated Qur'an, Turkey, Ottoman, circa 1550
Auction Closed
October 23, 01:24 PM GMT
Estimate
30,000 - 50,000 GBP
Lot Details
Description
Arabic manuscript on paper, 260 leaves, plus 4 fly-leaves, 13 lines to the page written in naskh in black ink, verses separated by gold roundels, within gold and black rules, surah headings in gold, marginal 'ashr and juz' markers in gold, f. 1b and 2a with gold and blue illuminated frontispiece, in contemporaneous gilt-stamped and tooled dark brown leather binding with flap, découpé doublures
text panel: 23.5 by 15cm.
leaf: 34.5 by 24.4cm.
Ex-collection Michel Abemayor (1912-75), New York
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