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Lot Essay
A number of folios from this manuscript are in public collections. Others have appeared at auction. 215 folios, formerly in the collection of Maréchal Lyautey were sold at the Hotel Georges V, Paris, 30 October 1975, lot 488. They later appeared at Sotheby's, 14 April 1976, lot 247. Other leaves from this manuscript have since sold in these Rooms, including 16 October 2001, lots 3 and 4, 23 April 2002, lot 7, 6 October 2009, lot 41, and most recently a folio and a bifolio, 26 April 2012, lots 135 and 136.
For an impressive section of this Qur'an, offered in this sale, and a note on the manuscript from which they come, please see lot 86.
For an impressive section of this Qur'an, offered in this sale, and a note on the manuscript from which they come, please see lot 86.