QAJAR IRAN, DATED ON BINDING AH 1239 /1823-24 AD

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QUR'AN
QAJAR IRAN, DATED ON BINDING AH 1239 /1823-24 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 283ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 15ll. of strong black naskh, text panels within gold, red and blue rules, catchwords, marginal hizb, and juz' markers in illuminated cartouches of various forms, copious marginal notes in shikasteh within illuminated cartouches, sura headings in gold thuluth on red or blue ground and within gold and polychrome illuminated panels, opening bifolio with elegant gold and polychrome illumination framing 6ll. of text in clouds reserved against gold ground, text on the following bifolio within gold cloudbands, in contemporaneous lacquer binding with central medallion and polychrome floral motifs, the border with cartouches containing prayers in elegant naskh, the doublures with gold floral arabesque on red ground
Text panel 4 1/8 x 2 1/8in. (10.6 x 5.6cm.); folio 5 3/8 x 3 3/8in. (13.7 x 8.6cm.)

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Lot Essay

A Qajar Qur‘an which sold in these Rooms, 8 October 2008, lot 74 was bound in a lacquer binding which was decorated in an extremely similar style to that offered here. So close are the two that it is possible that they were created in the same workshop, in the first half of the 19th century.

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