Lot Essay
Other sections from this Qur'an sold at Christie's South Kensington 23 April 2012, lot 119 and 5 October 2012, lot 550.
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PROBABLY YEMEN, ARABIAN COAST OR ZANZIBAR, 14TH CENTURY
Details
A QUR'AN SECTION (JUZ')
PROBABLY YEMEN, ARABIAN COAST OR ZANZIBAR, 14TH CENTURY
Juz' I, Arabic manuscript on buff or lightly coloured paper, 31ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. or 5ll. of thick black naskh script, each line with green or red interlinear division, text within double green or red rules, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, two sura headings in gold naskh script outlined in black on floral scroll ground within cartouches, marginal section markers as polychrome illuminated roundels, khams markers in gold kufic script outlined in black, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated frontispiece of which the lower half is an old restoration, colophon stating that this was copied by Da'ud bin Yusuf bin 'Umar bin 'Ali bin Rasul, in Qasr al-Shajara in Rajab AH 710, some marginal notes, old repairs, staining, in 18th century stamped brown morocco binding
Text panel 4 x 2¾in. (10 x 6.8cm.); folio 6 5/8 x 4¼in. (16.7 x 10.8cm.)
PROBABLY YEMEN, ARABIAN COAST OR ZANZIBAR, 14TH CENTURY
Juz' I, Arabic manuscript on buff or lightly coloured paper, 31ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. or 5ll. of thick black naskh script, each line with green or red interlinear division, text within double green or red rules, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, two sura headings in gold naskh script outlined in black on floral scroll ground within cartouches, marginal section markers as polychrome illuminated roundels, khams markers in gold kufic script outlined in black, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated frontispiece of which the lower half is an old restoration, colophon stating that this was copied by Da'ud bin Yusuf bin 'Umar bin 'Ali bin Rasul, in Qasr al-Shajara in Rajab AH 710, some marginal notes, old repairs, staining, in 18th century stamped brown morocco binding
Text panel 4 x 2¾in. (10 x 6.8cm.); folio 6 5/8 x 4¼in. (16.7 x 10.8cm.)