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Qur'an juz'

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Qur'an juz'
probably Ottoman, fifteenth century

comprising the xxth juz', manuscript on ivory paper, 38ff. plus one flyleaf, each with 5ll. of naskh, the first, third and fifth in gold and the others in blue, vowelling in gold, the word Allah in gold, gold rosettes with red dots between verses, blue margin, maroon, gold and blue marginal medallions marking the divisions of text, occasional marginal notes in small black script, sura headings in gold in red hatched panels, (slight rubbing, staining and smudging, repairs to folio edges, a few folios loose) opening double folio finely illuminated in gold, black, orange, yellow and blue, the headings written in white eastern kufic within scrolling vine cartouches flanked by roundels set in panels above and below the text, (slight creasing and rubbing to bottom corners, repairs to folio edges), CONTEMPORARY BROWN MOROCCO BINDING WITH TOOLED AND GOLD CENTRAL MEDALLION FILLED WITH INTERLACE PATTERN, AND WITH STYLISED FLEUR DE LYS PENDANTS, INTRICATE FOLIATE AND ARABESQUE BORDER, MINOR BORDERS AND GOLD RULES, (REPAIRED AND SCUFFED ON ONE BOARD)
FOLIO 13¾ X 10IN. (35 X 25.3CM.)
TEXT 9 X 6IN. (22.8 X 15CM.)

拍品专文

A NUMBER OF OTHER SECTIONS AND LEAVES FROM THIS QUR'AN HAVE APPEARED ON THE MARKET. ONLY ONE OTHER EXAMPLE HOWEVER HAS HAD BOTH OPENING ILLUMINATED DOUBLE-PAGE TOGETHER WITH THE ORIGINAL COVERS. THAT EXAMPLE WAS SOLD AT SOTHEBY'S 30 APRIL 1992 LOT 343. IT IS NOTABLE THAT, WHILE THE FORMAT AND LAYOUT REMAIN BASICALLY THE SAME IN ALL CASES, THE PRECISE DETAILS OF DECORATION DIFFER BETWEEN EACH. THE ILLUMINATION OF THE DOUBLE-PAGE IN THIS JUZ IS CONSIDERABLY MORE COLOURFUL THAT THAT OF SOME OF THE OTHER EXAMPLES. SIMILARLY THE DETAILS WITHIN THE MEDALLIONS OF EACH COVER DIFFER FROM EACH OTHER. IN THE VARIOUS EXAMPLES, EVEN THE COLOURS OF THE LINES OF CALLIGRAPHY DIFFER, WITH VARYING ARRANGEMENTS OF GOLD AND BLUE. VERSE ROUNDELS AND MARGINAL ORNAMENTS DIFFER IN DETAILS. IT IS PROBABLE THAT THIS REFLECTS MORE THAN ONE HAND HAVING PERFORMED THE DECORATION OF THIS VERY IMPRESSIVE QUR'AN.