- Three Qur’an ajza’ (XI, XV and XX), Persia or Turkey, Safavid or Ottoman, circa 1600 1600
- Handicrafts and classics, Calligraphy, manuscript
- 17.5 * 24 cm
- Juz XI: surah al-Tawbah (IX), v.94 to surah Hud (XI), v.5Juz XV: surah al-Isa (XVII), v.1 to surah al-Kahf (XVIII), v.74Juz XX: surah al-Naml (XXVII),v.56 to surah al-‘Ankabut (XXIX), v.45each volume with 7 lines to the page written in black elegant naskh, ruled in green, orange, gold and blue, verses separated by polychrome and gold rosettes, blue and gold roundels in the margins filled with flower sprays, surah headings in gold within a polychrome cartouche, f.1b of each volume with a polychrome and gold heading, in original Safavid brown leather stamped and tooled gilt binding, the doublures with polychrome decoupé medallions and spandrels, in a later wooden boxeach juz: 24 by 17.5cm.
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£30,000
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Artwork Description
Another juz from this Qur’an (juz II) was sold at Christie’s London, 7 April 2011, lot 134.
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