HERAT, SIGNED MUHAMMAD AL-QARI(?), DATED MUHARRAM AH 963/NOVEMBER 1555 AD

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MINIATURE QUR'AN
HERAT, SIGNED MUHAMMAD AL-QARI(?), DATED MUHARRAM AH 963/NOVEMBER 1555 AD
Octagonal format, Arabic manuscript on paper, 427ff. plus four flyleaves each folio with 14ll. of black naskh micrography within blue and gold circular rules, gold circle verse markers, catchwords, sura titles in gold thuluth, the opening bifolium with gold and polychrome sunburst illumination enclosing 6ll. of black naskh, the closing folio with gold drawing, colophon signed and dated, the dark green leather binding with gilt design, the doublures in green dyed paper with plant motifs, in silver octagonal box
Text panel 1 1/4 in. (3.2cm.) diam.; folio 1 3/4in. x 1 3/4in. (4.3cm x 4.3cm.)

來源

By repute, Esma Sultan (d.1899), daughter of Sultan Abdulaziz (d.1876), bequeathed to
Huseyin Hayreddine Beyefendi, Istanbul, (d.1956), bequeathed to
Saadeddine Mohamed Beyefendi (d. 1976), bequeathed to
Saadeddine Mohamed Bey Osmansoy (b. 1930)

刻印

The box is engraved on the outer cover with the words 'mushaf sharif'

注意事項

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榮譽呈獻

Behnaz Atighi Moghaddam Head of Sale

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拍品專文

Miniature qur'ans such as our example often served as talismans and worn around the neck or carried on long journeys for protection. They became popular from the seventeenth century onwards and sixteenth century examples are rare. Travelers also wore them as good-luck charms. The silver banner box is nineteenth century. A similar sixteenth century miniature Safavid Qur'an was sold at Sotheby's London, 1 May 2019, lot 17.

HERAT, SIGNED MUHAMMAD AL-QARI(?), DATED MUHARRAM AH 963/NOVEMBER 1555 AD

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