QUR'AN

ILKHANID IRAN, MID 14TH CENTURY

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QUR'AN
ILKHANID IRAN, MID 14TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on buff paper, 352ff., each folio with 11ll. of flowing black rayhani with interlinear red Persian translation, green and gold black-outlined rosette verse markers, sura headings in black-outlined gold, illuminated marginal medallions marking the divisions of text, later replacement folio at beginning and end, lacking folios at the beginning and end, some staining and repairs
Folio 16¼ x 11¾in. (41.1 x 30.2cm.)

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Lot Essay

An Ilkhanid Qur’an manuscript in the Türk ve Islam Eserleri Müzesi in Istanbul which is dated AH 734/1333-34 AD has very similar sura headings in gold and marginal palmettes to our present manuscript (1400. Yilinda Kur'an-i Kerim, exhibition catalogue, Istanbul, 2010, kat.57, pp.254-55).

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