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QUR'AN
SIGNED 'ABD AL-HUSAYN AL-MASHHADI
AL-RADAWI, MASHHAD, QAJAR IRAN, AND
KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, DATED DHU AL-
HIJJA AH 1232/OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1817
AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 471ff. plus five
flyleaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh,
Persian interlinear translation in red nasta'liq, gold
roundel verse markers, within gold and black rules,
catchwords, marginal notes in blue and red thuluth
marking juz' and hizb, sura headings in white
thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated panels,
the first two pages of text illuminated in gold and
polychrome framing 5ll. of text in clouds on gold
ground, preceded by 14ff. of black and red nasta'liq
including an index, tables with the names of God
and an illuminated opening folio from another
contemporaneous Qur'an, occasional folios
inserted with notes in black nasta'liq including
4ff. dividing the first and second pages of text,
colophon signed and dated, followed by prayers, in
lacquer binding with floral borders and floral lobed
cartouche, red lacquer doublures with similar floral
decoration, some loose folios
Text panel 8 x 4Ωin. (20.2 x 11.4cm.); folio 11æ x
7æin. (29.9 x 19.6cm.)
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£6,000-8,000 US$8,600-11,000
€7,000-9,300

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QUR'AN
SIGNED MUHAMMAD HASHIM ISFAHANI,
ZAND IRAN, DATED AH 1170/1756-57 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 242ff. plus four
flyleaves, each folio with 17ll. of neat black naskh
in clouds reserved against a gold ground, gold and
polychrome roundel verse markers, text within gold
and black rules, catchwords, sura headings in red
thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated panels,
gold and polychrome marginal medallions marking
juz', sajda and hizb, the opening bifolio illuminated
in gold and polychrome with an index within floral
margins, the following bifolio illuminated in gold
and polychrome with gold lobed medallions on a
floral ground, the following bifolio illuminated in
gold and polychrome framing 6ll., the final bifolio
similarly illuminated with colophon signed and
dated, in floral lacquer binding, floral lacquer
doublures, overall good condition
Text panel 4√ x 2æin. (12.4 x 6.8cm.); folio 5√ x
3¬in. (14.9 x 9.2cm.)
£6,000-8,000 US$8,600-11,000
€7,000-9,300
A panel of calligraphy by Muhammad Hashim
Isfahani is in the Harvard Art Museums/Arthur
M. Sackler Museum (1958.200) and a panel of
illuminated calligraphy was sold at Sotheby's
Doha, 16 December 2010, lot 126. See also Mehdi
Bayani, Ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol. III,
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Teheran, 1348 sh. p.1205, no.655.

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