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A similar Qur'an recently sold in these Rooms, 2 May 2019, lot 90.
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NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 391ff. plus two fly-leaves, 13ll. black naskh with tajwid in red, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings alternating in red and pale blue thuluth, hizb markers in pale blue, set within gold and polychrome rules, the inner margins heavily annotated, outer margins plain, the opening bifolio with two six-pointed star medallions, sura al-fatiha and the opening 7ll. of sura al-baqara in blue thuluth on gold, sura headings in panels above, framed by gold and polychrome illumination, three folios of exegesis included at the end, in contemporary lacquer binding, the doublures brown with gold stencilling
Text panel 5 ¼ x 2 ¾in. (13.2 x 6.9cm.); folio 10 1⁄8 x 6 1/8in. (25.6 x 15.6cm.)
NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 391ff. plus two fly-leaves, 13ll. black naskh with tajwid in red, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings alternating in red and pale blue thuluth, hizb markers in pale blue, set within gold and polychrome rules, the inner margins heavily annotated, outer margins plain, the opening bifolio with two six-pointed star medallions, sura al-fatiha and the opening 7ll. of sura al-baqara in blue thuluth on gold, sura headings in panels above, framed by gold and polychrome illumination, three folios of exegesis included at the end, in contemporary lacquer binding, the doublures brown with gold stencilling
Text panel 5 ¼ x 2 ¾in. (13.2 x 6.9cm.); folio 10 1⁄8 x 6 1/8in. (25.6 x 15.6cm.)
Provenance
Private collection, Paris, 1960s and thence by descent
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Phoebe Jowett Smith
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