Lot Essay
Other sections from this Qur'an sold at Christie's South Kensington, 7 April 2011, lot 105 and 7 October 2011, lot 5.
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MAMLUK EGYPT, 14TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN SECTION
MAMLUK EGYPT, 14TH CENTURY
Qur'an IV (sura al-nisa), v.25-66, Arabic manuscript on paper, 23ff. plus four modern fly-leaves, each folio with 5ll. of elegant black muhaqqaq script, with gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, marginal section markers as gold and polychrome almond-shaped medallions or inscribed in gold thuluth script outlined in black, in modern gilt brown binding, in modern slip-case
Folio 10.3/8 x 7in. (26.3 x 18cm.)
MAMLUK EGYPT, 14TH CENTURY
Qur'an IV (sura al-nisa), v.25-66, Arabic manuscript on paper, 23ff. plus four modern fly-leaves, each folio with 5ll. of elegant black muhaqqaq script, with gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, marginal section markers as gold and polychrome almond-shaped medallions or inscribed in gold thuluth script outlined in black, in modern gilt brown binding, in modern slip-case
Folio 10.3/8 x 7in. (26.3 x 18cm.)
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