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拍品專文
This manuscript represents part IV of a commentary on the Qur’an which includes sura XXI, al-anbiya’ through to sura LXXV, al-qiyamat. Unusually the text of the commentary is written inside the text panel interspersed with quotations from the Qur’an. The illumination and the distinctive use of the bihari script is closely comparable to a 15th century Qur’an in the Museum of Turkish and Islamic Art in Istanbul (TIEM 264, The 1400th Anniversary of the Qur’an, exhibition catalogue, Istanbul, 2010, pp. 350 – 351, cat. no. 92).
For further reading on bihari script see S.A. Blair, Islamic Calligraphy, Edinburgh, 2006, pp. 386-390, and J.P. Losty, The Art of the Book in India, London, 1982.
For further reading on bihari script see S.A. Blair, Islamic Calligraphy, Edinburgh, 2006, pp. 386-390, and J.P. Losty, The Art of the Book in India, London, 1982.