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A comparable but slightly later Qajar miniature Qur'an in lacquer binding sold in these Rooms 30 April 2026, lot 82.
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SIGNED IBN MUHAMMAD HADI SAYYID MUHAMMAD AL-HUSAYNI AL-KHATUNABADI, ZAND IRAN, DATED AH 1198 / 1783-4 AD
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A MINIATURE QUR'AN
SIGNED IBN MUHAMMAD HADI SAYYID MUHAMMAD AL-HUSAYNI AL-KHATUNABADI, ZAND IRAN, DATED AH 1198 / 1783-4 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 215ff. plus two fly leaves, each folio with 18ll. black naskh on a gold ground, sura headings in gold within gold and polychrome illuminated panels, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, the text within gold and blue rules, margins with hizb and nisf markers in sky-blue and gold palmettes, catchwords, opening bifolio with dense gold and polychrome illumination framing 5ll. of black naskh, following bifolio with marginal gold and polychrome floral illumination, contemporaneous lacquer binding
Text panel 3 7⁄8 x 2¼in. (9.7 x 5.7cm.); folio 4½ x 3in. (11.5 x 7.5cm.)
SIGNED IBN MUHAMMAD HADI SAYYID MUHAMMAD AL-HUSAYNI AL-KHATUNABADI, ZAND IRAN, DATED AH 1198 / 1783-4 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 215ff. plus two fly leaves, each folio with 18ll. black naskh on a gold ground, sura headings in gold within gold and polychrome illuminated panels, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, the text within gold and blue rules, margins with hizb and nisf markers in sky-blue and gold palmettes, catchwords, opening bifolio with dense gold and polychrome illumination framing 5ll. of black naskh, following bifolio with marginal gold and polychrome floral illumination, contemporaneous lacquer binding
Text panel 3 7⁄8 x 2¼in. (9.7 x 5.7cm.); folio 4½ x 3in. (11.5 x 7.5cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, Middle East, before 1958, and thence by descent to London, by 1992
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