A MINIATURE OCTAGONAL QUR'AN MEDINA, SAUDI ARABIA, DATED AH 98...
A MINIATURE OCTAGONAL QUR'AN
MEDINA, SAUDI ARABIA, DATED AH 985 / 1577-8 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 250ff. plus one flyleaf, each folio with 20ll. black ghubari script, sura headings in red, set within gold and black rules, the margins plain, catchwords, the opening bifolio with 7ll. black ghubari set within broad illuminated margins, the binding gilt tooled leather, the doublures paper, in repoussé silver box
Text panel 1 x 1 1⁄8in. (2.7 x 2.9cm.); folio 1 3⁄8 x 1 3⁄8in. (3.4 x 3.3cm.); case 1 ¾in. (4.6cm.) diam.
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Please note that the colophon states that this Qur'an was copied in Medina, in modern-day Saudi Arabia, and not Safavid Iran as stated in the printed catalogue.
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A MINIATURE OCTAGONAL QUR'AN
MEDINA, SAUDI ARABIA, DATED AH 985 / 1577-8 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 250ff. plus one flyleaf, each folio with 20ll. black ghubari script, sura headings in red, set within gold and black rules, the margins plain, catchwords, the opening bifolio with 7ll. black ghubari set within broad illuminated margins, the binding gilt tooled leather, the doublures paper, in repoussé silver box
Text panel 1 x 1 1⁄8in. (2.7 x 2.9cm.); folio 1 3⁄8 x 1 3⁄8in. (3.4 x 3.3cm.); case 1 ¾in. (4.6cm.) diam.
Provenance
Please note that the colophon states that this Qur'an was copied in Medina, in modern-day Saudi Arabia, and not Safavid Iran as stated in the printed catalogue.
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