拍品專文
The scribe of this manuscript copied another Qur'an which sold in these Rooms, 8 April 2011, lot 50.
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SIGNED AHMAD IBN MULLA UTHMAN, NORTH INDIA, DATED AH 1145 / 1732-3 AD
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QUR'AN
SIGNED AHMAD IBN MULLA UTHMAN, NORTH INDIA, DATED AH 1145 / 1732-3 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 445ff. plus 11 fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of strong black naskh on gold-speckled text panels, gold roundel verse markers, set within gold, black and blue rules, the margins plain with illuminated medallions to mark divisions, outer rules with narrow illuminated borders, catchwords, the name of each ayah on the top left hand corner, sura headings in white thuluth within a gold cartouche on a blue panel, opening bifolio with 7ll. black naskh reserved against gold cloudbands, with illuminated cartouches above and below and finely illuminated margins, the following bifolio with the text reserved against gold cloudbands and illuminated margins, six further illuminated bifolios through the manuscript at the openings of sura al-ma'ida, ya-sin, bani Isra'il, al-shu'ara, al-saffat, qaf, al al-nas , the colophon signed and dated, in later stamped green leather binding with nine orange ribbon bookmarks, the doublures pink marbled paper, each page wrapped in translucent paper
Text panel 6 x 3 1⁄8 in. (15.2 x 7.8cm.); folio 8 3⁄8 x 5 3⁄8 in. (21.4 x 13.8cm.)
SIGNED AHMAD IBN MULLA UTHMAN, NORTH INDIA, DATED AH 1145 / 1732-3 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 445ff. plus 11 fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of strong black naskh on gold-speckled text panels, gold roundel verse markers, set within gold, black and blue rules, the margins plain with illuminated medallions to mark divisions, outer rules with narrow illuminated borders, catchwords, the name of each ayah on the top left hand corner, sura headings in white thuluth within a gold cartouche on a blue panel, opening bifolio with 7ll. black naskh reserved against gold cloudbands, with illuminated cartouches above and below and finely illuminated margins, the following bifolio with the text reserved against gold cloudbands and illuminated margins, six further illuminated bifolios through the manuscript at the openings of sura al-ma'ida, ya-sin, bani Isra'il, al-shu'ara, al-saffat, qaf, al al-nas , the colophon signed and dated, in later stamped green leather binding with nine orange ribbon bookmarks, the doublures pink marbled paper, each page wrapped in translucent paper
Text panel 6 x 3 1⁄8 in. (15.2 x 7.8cm.); folio 8 3⁄8 x 5 3⁄8 in. (21.4 x 13.8cm.)
來源
Anon. sale, Christie's London, 26 October 2017, lot 158
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