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QURAN JUZ' XII QUR'AN
SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY OTTOMAN TURKEY, MID 16TH CENTURY
Comprising the twelfth juz', Arabic manuscript on burnished paper, 30ff. plus Arabic manuscript on burnished paper, 258ff. with six flyleaves, each folio
two flyleaves, each folio with 7ll. of alternating black and gold naskh within gold with 13ll. of black naskh within gold and black rules, with gold rosette verse
and polychrome rules, with gold rosette verse markers, gold and blue marginal markers, gold script in margins marking 'ashr, sura headings in gold, opening
medallions, sura headings in blue thuluth within illuminated gold cartouches, bifolio with blue and gold illumination framing 5ll. of text, in contemporaneous
gold and polychrome illuminated opening bifolio, in original Safavid gilt tooled black leather binding with tooled medallion and spandrels and traces of
binding with flap worked with calligraphic borders, the doublures with gilded gilding, doublures covered with gold speckled yellow paper
découpé arabesque medallion and spandrels over polychrome panels Text panel 9¿ x 6in. (23.2 x 15.2cm.); folio 13æ x 10¿in. x (34.5 x 25.5cm.)
Text panel 4¡ x 5q in. (10.9 x 14.1 cm.); folio 6w x 9¬ in. (17.3 x 24.2 cm.)
£20,000-30,000 US$23,000-34,000
£8,000-12,000 US$9,200-14,000 €23,000-34,000
€9,200-14,000
PROVENANCE:
PROVENANCE: Michel Abemayor (1912-1975), New York
Michel Abemayor (1912-1975), New York
The layout and use of an elegant bichrome palette of gold and rich lapis
Juz' III from this Qur'an was sold in these Rooms, 5 October 2010, lot 195. lazuli for the opening illumination of our Qur'an is typical of 16th and early
17th century Ottoman manuscripts and tughra decorations. See for example
the tughra of Sultan Suleyman the Magnificent in the British Museum
(inv. no.1949,0409,0.86). An Ottoman Qur’an, with a similarly decorated
polychrome illuminated bifolio dated to the early 17th century was sold at
Sotheby's, London 25 May 2005 lot 209.

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