IRAN, PROBABLY SHIRAZ, CIRCA MID-14TH CENTURY

细节

QUR'AN LEAF
IRAN, PROBABLY SHIRAZ, CIRCA MID-14TH CENTURY
Qur'an XX, Sura al-Taha, manuscript on cream paper, 7ll. of gold muhaqqaq outlined in black, gold rosettes between verses, diacritical marks in gold, vocalisation in blue, the first, third and seventh lines in double size, minor losses at the edges, mounted
Folio 17½ x 10½in. (44.4 x 26.7cm.)

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拍品专文

On the basis of an almost identical Qur'an section in Shiraz that bears an endowment notice in the name of Jalal al-Din Mas'ud ibn 'Ala' al-Din Muhammad and is dated AH [8]74/1469-70 AD, James attributes the Qur'an from which this manuscript comes also to Shiraz (David James, The Master Scribes, Oxford 1992, p. 140)

Leaves from the same Qur'an were in these Rooms, 23 April 2002, lot 6 and 14 October 2003, lot 2. Another leaf is in the collection of Nasser D. Khalili (James, op. cit., 1992, no. 32, pp. 140-1).