Juz mamluk

Juz mamluk
Egypt or Syria, 14th century
Arabic manuscript of 38 leaves on thick beige paper, very beautiful and dense calligraphy "Muhaqqaq" in black ink on 5 lines per page. Double illuminated frontispiece, two gold sura titles in "rayhan" surrounded by black, separations of verses in the form of a golden rosette surrounded by black and punctuated by red and blue, "ashirat", "khamisats" and "hezb" indicated by lozenges in the same colours.
In the cartouches of the first double page: "Juz 11 sur 30, le Verbe du maître de l'univers"
Beautiful flap binding, probably original, in brown morocco with complex decoration, stamped with a star-shaped polygon in the centre.
30 x 22 cm

A large Mamlul Quran Juz, Egypt or Syria, 14th century
Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 38ff., 5ll. to the page written in strong and very fine black "muhaqqqaq", opening illuminated frontispiece, two sura headings in gold "rayhân", gold rosace verse markers, gold roundels outlined in black, red and blue between every five and ten versses, in lovely papier mâché lacquer binding featuring "Gul wa bulbul" on a yellow background.

References:
Two Mamluk Qur'an Juz, similar in size, separation patterns, and this very tight and regular Muhaqqaq, are on sale at Sotheby's, 5 October 2011, No. 64, and ibid, 8 October 2014, No. 17. Automatically translated by DeepL. To see the original version, click here.