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CHINA, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY
细节
QUR'AN
CHINA, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 228ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 17ll. black muhaqqaq script, with gold roundel verse markers outlined in red, sura headings in red thuluth script in clouds on gold ground within black-ruled green cartouches, text within double red rules, with marginal markers as gold and polychrome illuminated medallions inscribed in coloured thuluth script, the opening bifolium and the thirty openings of Qur'an sections (juz') with gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces and margins, with occasional marginal notes, catchwords, the probably added colophon signed 'Abd al-Latif bin Shams al-Din al-Sini and giving the place Khanbaliq (Beijing) as the place of copy, with date of Ramadan AH 902 within an illuminated shamsa, the opening bifolio illumination possibly a later restoration, in modern Chinese-style tooled binding, occasional staining, otherwise in fair condition
Text panel 8 5/8 x 4 7/8in. (21.8 x 12.5cm.); folio 11 5/8 x 7¾in. (29.5 x 19.5cm.)
CHINA, LATE 16TH/17TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 228ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 17ll. black muhaqqaq script, with gold roundel verse markers outlined in red, sura headings in red thuluth script in clouds on gold ground within black-ruled green cartouches, text within double red rules, with marginal markers as gold and polychrome illuminated medallions inscribed in coloured thuluth script, the opening bifolium and the thirty openings of Qur'an sections (juz') with gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces and margins, with occasional marginal notes, catchwords, the probably added colophon signed 'Abd al-Latif bin Shams al-Din al-Sini and giving the place Khanbaliq (Beijing) as the place of copy, with date of Ramadan AH 902 within an illuminated shamsa, the opening bifolio illumination possibly a later restoration, in modern Chinese-style tooled binding, occasional staining, otherwise in fair condition
Text panel 8 5/8 x 4 7/8in. (21.8 x 12.5cm.); folio 11 5/8 x 7¾in. (29.5 x 19.5cm.)
拍场告示
Please note that this Qur'an should be dated "probably 18th century" and not "late 16th/17th century" as printed in the catalogue.