Lot Essay
Other sections from this Qur'an sold at Christie's South Kensington 26 April 2013, lot 531; 23 April 2012, lot 119; and 5 October 2012, lot 550.
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PROBABLY YEMEN, 15TH CENTURY
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A QUR’AN SECTION (JUZ’)
PROBABLY YEMEN, 15TH CENTURY
Juz’ XVI, Arabic manuscript on buff or lightly coloured paper, 39ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 5ll. of thick black naskh script, each line with red interlinear division, text within double red rules, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, two sura headings in gold naskh script outlined in black on gold ground within cartouches, marginal section markers as polychrome illuminated roundels, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated frontispiece in white thuluth outlined in black on gold ground, with green frame, colophon stating that this was copied by Da'ud bin Yusuf bin 'Umar bin 'Ali bin Rasul, in Shawwal AH 710, old repairs, staining, in 18th century stamped reddish brown morocco binding with flap
PROBABLY YEMEN, 15TH CENTURY
Juz’ XVI, Arabic manuscript on buff or lightly coloured paper, 39ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 5ll. of thick black naskh script, each line with red interlinear division, text within double red rules, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, two sura headings in gold naskh script outlined in black on gold ground within cartouches, marginal section markers as polychrome illuminated roundels, opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated frontispiece in white thuluth outlined in black on gold ground, with green frame, colophon stating that this was copied by Da'ud bin Yusuf bin 'Umar bin 'Ali bin Rasul, in Shawwal AH 710, old repairs, staining, in 18th century stamped reddish brown morocco binding with flap
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