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Item Details
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| Heading: |
(Qur'an) |
| Author: |
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| Title: |
Manuscript Qur'an, Ottoman period, likely Iran |
| Place: |
[Iran?] |
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| Date: |
AH 1204 [c.1783 A.D.] |
| Item # : |
214833 |
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| Sale Number |
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437 |
| Lot Number |
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132 |
| Sale Name |
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| Rare Books & Manuscripts: A Private San Francisco Library with Important Angling & Sporting Books |
| Sale Date |
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09/16/2010 |
| Price realized |
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$ 7800 |
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| Description: |
| 233 leaves + 1 blank. Buff paper, calligraphed on both sides in Naskh script, with 19 lines per page within gold margins, gold circular verse markers, sura headings in white on a gold and polychrome illuminated ground, opening bifolio with elaborate gold and polychrome illumination. 14.8x9 cm. (5¾x3½"), brown wallet-style morocco binding tooled in gilt with borders surrounding central design, page edges stained in decorative design, slipcase with attached ribbon. |
| Splendid little Qur'an (Koran), beautifully calligraphed with numerous marginal decorations in liquid gold and colors, the first two pages particularly elaborate in their execution. NOTE: The date of the Qur'an is revised from that originally stated in the catalogue. Provenance: Dr. Crawford Failey and Dr. Gertrude Van Wagenen, a gift to them in the 1920's while traveling in the Middle East; consigned by the family. |
| Condition: |
| The slipcase is worn and broken, in two pieces; just minor extremity rubbing to the binding, hinge tender between the first two pages, some light marginal fingering, still fine or nearly so, a striking example. |
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