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AN IMPRESSIVE SAFAVID QUR'AN
英国 北京时间
2020年06月25日 开拍 / 2020年06月23日 截止委托
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AN IMPRESSIVE SAFAVID QUR'AN IRAN, SHIRAZ, MID-16TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 358ff. plus eight fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh on gold-speckled ground, text panels within gold and polychrome rules, sura headings in white thuluth on gold ground within heavily illuminated cartouches, catchwords, gold letters and occasional gold medallions marking Qur'anic sections, opening bifolio with large gold and polychrome paired shamsas, followed by an impressive double carpet-page, followed by bifolio with illuminated headpiece and text of al-baqara in cloud bands on gold illuminated ground, two fully illuminated bifolios at the end with prayers and a falnama, in later European red morocco binding, marbled paper doublures, remargined with minor repairs and small areas of repainting Text panel 9 1/8 x 5 ? in. (23 x 14 cm.); folio 15 ? x 9 ? in. (40.6 x 24 cm.) This magnificent Safavid Qur’an illustrates the height Shirazi illumination in the mid-sixteenth century. It is extremely heavily illuminated with three densely decorated bifolios at the start of the manuscript and two further illuminated bifolios at the end. The overall layout of the second bifolio of the Qur’an, which contains the Fatiha, finds a close comparable on a Qur’an in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection which bears a date of AH 972/1564-65 AD and is also attributed to Shiraz (James, 1992, pp.186-187, no.45). On both, the central rectangle of the illumination contains a central gold-ground calligraphic cartouche with three smaller cartouches above and below. The ground around them is cobalt-blue and both the cartouches and the ground are elegantly filled with flowering scrolls and polychrome cloud bands. Similar scrolls and cloud bands can be found on other Shirazi Qur’ans, including one in Türk ve Islam Muzesi in Istanbul which is attributed to circa 1580 (TIEM 378; Istanbul, 2012, pp. 330-331, no. 84). A Shirazi Qur’an with a similar falnama is also housed in Istanbul (Istanbul, 2012, pp. 336-337, no. 85). A closely comparable Qur’an with similar elegant illumination sold in these Rooms, 25 October 2018, lot 109.

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