QUR'AN

COPIED BY 'ALI AKBAR, QAJAR IRAN, DATED END OF SHABAN AH 1231/JULY 1816 AD

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QUR'AN
COPIED BY 'ALI AKBAR, QAJAR IRAN, DATED END OF SHABAN AH 1231/JULY 1816 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 206ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 18ll. of black naskh, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, within black and gold rules, catchwords, the margins with illuminated medallions marking divisions, sura titles in red thuluth reserved against gold bands, opening bifolium illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 7ll. of text in clouds on a gold ground, the colophon signed and dated, in contemporaneous lacquer binding, brown leather case with flap and clasp
Text panel 5 ½ x 3 ¼in. (14 x 8cm.); folio 7 ¾ x 4 ¾in. (19.3 x 12.3 cm.)

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Lot Essay

The colophon at the end of this manuscript states that 1775-76 AD was copied by ‘Ali Akbar. Bayani records an ‘Ali Akbar who wrote a calligraphic folio in naskh (dated AH 1189) now in the Gulistan Palace Library (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va athar-e khosh-nevisan, vols.III-IV, Tehran, 1368 sh., p.1116). However it is probably too early to be the same scribe as the one responsible for this manuscript. A manuscript of two mathnavis from the Khamsa of Nizami however, sold at Christie’s South Kensington, 23 April 2012, lot 171, might well be by the same scribe.

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