Ending 2nd Mar, 2025 17:00

Olympia Timed: Spring 2025

 
  Lot 531
 

531

AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN, AFGHANISTAN, CIRCA 18TH CENTURY

with an illuminated double page frontispiece decorated in gold and colour, the opening page with an illuminated head piece in gold and colour, a further double page of illuminated script later in the manuscript, sura headings in white script on a gold ground, verse markings of gold roundels dotted with red and encircled by blue, further marginal markers in gold and blue, the text composed of 14 lines of naskh within gold meanders and gold and blue lined margins, approximately 400 ff., a later cloth and paper binding, text incomplete, a panel of text in Pashto applied to the doublure, folio 15.5 x 9.1 cm., text 11.8 x 5.5 cm.

The doublure has a text in Pashto applied.

Sold for £300


 

with an illuminated double page frontispiece decorated in gold and colour, the opening page with an illuminated head piece in gold and colour, a further double page of illuminated script later in the manuscript, sura headings in white script on a gold ground, verse markings of gold roundels dotted with red and encircled by blue, further marginal markers in gold and blue, the text composed of 14 lines of naskh within gold meanders and gold and blue lined margins, approximately 400 ff., a later cloth and paper binding, text incomplete, a panel of text in Pashto applied to the doublure, folio 15.5 x 9.1 cm., text 11.8 x 5.5 cm.

Auction: Olympia Timed: Spring 2025, ending 2nd Mar, 2025

 

 

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