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Another Qur'an commissioned for Amin al-Dawla 'Abdullah Khan and written by 'Abdullah al-Ranani was sold in these Rooms, 23 April 2015, lot 100.
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COMMISSIONED BY AMIN AL-DAWLA 'ABDULLAH KHAN, SIGNED 'ABDULLAH IBN 'ASHUR AL-RANANI AL-ISFAHANI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1233/1817-18 AD
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QUR'AN
COMMISSIONED BY AMIN AL-DAWLA 'ABDULLAH KHAN, SIGNED 'ABDULLAH IBN 'ASHUR AL-RANANI AL-ISFAHANI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1233/1817-18 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 304ff. plus one flyleaf, 14ll. of black naskh with red Persian interlinear translations in nasta'liq, within gold and black rules with gold outer rules, catchwords, gold and polychrome marginal devices marking hizb, sajda, nisf and juz', marginal notes in gold and polychrome illuminated panels, sura headings in gold thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated panels, opening and final bifolios with central lobed medallion containing gold thuluth on a gold floral ground, two further bifolios with gold and polychrome illumination framing 6ll. of text in clouds reserved against gold ground, colophon signed and dated, followed by a folio with prayers, occasional later owner notes, in later brown morocco with stamped central lobed medallion in gold, red leather doublures with stamped central lobed cruciform in gold and blue
Text panel 6 x 3 ½in. (15.3 x 8.8cm.); folio 8 x 5 1/8in. (20.4 x 12.8cm.)
COMMISSIONED BY AMIN AL-DAWLA 'ABDULLAH KHAN, SIGNED 'ABDULLAH IBN 'ASHUR AL-RANANI AL-ISFAHANI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1233/1817-18 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 304ff. plus one flyleaf, 14ll. of black naskh with red Persian interlinear translations in nasta'liq, within gold and black rules with gold outer rules, catchwords, gold and polychrome marginal devices marking hizb, sajda, nisf and juz', marginal notes in gold and polychrome illuminated panels, sura headings in gold thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated panels, opening and final bifolios with central lobed medallion containing gold thuluth on a gold floral ground, two further bifolios with gold and polychrome illumination framing 6ll. of text in clouds reserved against gold ground, colophon signed and dated, followed by a folio with prayers, occasional later owner notes, in later brown morocco with stamped central lobed medallion in gold, red leather doublures with stamped central lobed cruciform in gold and blue
Text panel 6 x 3 ½in. (15.3 x 8.8cm.); folio 8 x 5 1/8in. (20.4 x 12.8cm.)
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