A SECTION FROM A LARGE QUR'AN
A SECTION FROM A LARGE QUR'AN
A SECTION FROM A LARGE QUR'AN
A SECTION FROM A LARGE QUR'AN
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A SECTION FROM A LARGE QUR'AN

ABU'L-HASAN AL-'USAYLI AL-HANAFI, OTTOMAN CAIRO, AH 969 / 1561-2 AD

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A SECTION FROM A LARGE QUR'AN
ABU'L-HASAN AL-'USAYLI AL-HANAFI, OTTOMAN CAIRO, AH 969 / 1561-2 AD
Qur'an LV, sura al-rahman, v.71 (part) to LVII, sura al-hadid, v.10; then LVIII, sura al-mujadila, v.1 to LIX, sura al-hashr, v.24, Arabic manuscript on paper, 7ff., each folio with 11ll. strong black muhaqqaq, tashkeel notes in red ink, the word 'Allah' and the bismallah picked out in gold, gold roundel verse markers, text panels within blue and gold rules, the margins plain with 'ashr marked in gold thuluth, four sura headings in sky-blue or white thuluth on a gold illuminated panel, the folios unbound
Text panel 15 5⁄8 x 9 5/8in. (39.6 x 24.5cm.); folio 21 3⁄8 x 14 7/8in. (54.3 x 37.9cm.)
來源
With Habib Anavian, New York, 1979
出版
Habib Anavian, Ancient and Islamic Art, New York, 1979

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A bifolio from this impressive manuscript is in the Khalili Collection (acc.no.QUR627). In a discussion of those folios, David James suggests that they come from a manuscript which was shown intact at the Habib Anavian Gallery, New York, in 1979, after which it was broken up. The exhibition catalogue records that the folio was produced in Egypt in the year AH 969 / 1561-2 AD and records the name of the scribe. Unfortunately, the current whereabouts of the colophon page are unknown. A Cairene origin does seem likely for this manuscript - the high quality of the muhaqqaq script looks to the finest examples of Mamluk royal manuscripts, such as the impressive Qur'an prepared for Qansuh al-Ghuri in the John Rylands Library, Manchester which - with folios measuring 88 x 29cm. - is among the largest Qur'an manuscripts known (acc.no.MS 42).

Further bifolios from this Qur'an are in the Detroit Institute of Arts (acc.no.1997.17.a) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (acc.no.M.85.237.73). Those to come on the market in recent years include examples sold Bonhams London, 24 April 2018, lot 6 and another sold by Pichon & Noudel-Deniau, Maison Drouot, 26 October 2023, lot 179, as well as a bifolio sold in these Rooms, 5 October 2010, lot 136.

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