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QUR'AN JUZ' I PROBABLY IRAN, 13TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN JUZ' I PROBABLY IRAN, 13TH CENTURY
拍品描述：
QUR'AN JUZ' I
PROBABLY IRAN, 13TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 16ff. plus one flyleaf, each folio with 7ll. black naskh, gold rosette verse markers, the margins plain with illuminated roundels to mark divisions, the opening folio with 3ll. within blue and gold illuminated margins, heading in white thuluth reserved against blue cartouche, the closing folio similarly illuminated with gold kufic above and below mentioning a certain 'Abd al-Aziz, in later marbled paper-covered binding, the doublures paper, in fabric pouch, incomplete
6 3⁄8 x 5 ¼in. (16.2 x 13.4cm.)
Private London collection since 1990s
The
mise en page of our manuscript, which uses a combination of gold
thuluth with black
naskh is comparable to a folio in the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, signed by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-'Amid al-Imam Awhad al-Din al-Khattat and dated to AH 630 / 1232-3 AH. That folio has been attributed to Eastern Iran (acc.no.C-189, published Sheila S Blair,
Islamic Calligraphy, Edinburgh, 2006, fig.6.14, p.219). The script in this manuscript is also comparable to that in two Qur'an volumes in the Keir Collection signed by a certain 'Ali ibn Ja'far ibn Asad al-Katib, which was endowed to a foundation in Damascus by the Zengid ruler Abu'l-Qasim Mahmud in the year AH 562 / 1167 AD (Basil Robinson et al.,
Islamic Painting and the Arts of the Book, London, 1976, no.VII.3 and 4, pp.287-8). The illumination in this manuscript can also be compared to the frontispiece of a Qur'an in the Khalili Collection, which has a similar knotted border and has been attributed to Iran (David James,
The Master Scribes, Oxford, 1993, no.9, p.52). Although
naskh scripts were used across the Abbasid caliphate, from Damascus to Ghazni, this manuscript is most likely to originate from the eastern Islamic world.
PROBABLY IRAN, 13TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 16ff. plus one flyleaf, each folio with 7ll. black naskh, gold rosette verse markers, the margins plain with illuminated roundels to mark divisions, the opening folio with 3ll. within blue and gold illuminated margins, heading in white thuluth reserved against blue cartouche, the closing folio similarly illuminated with gold kufic above and below mentioning a certain 'Abd al-Aziz, in later marbled paper-covered binding, the doublures paper, in fabric pouch, incomplete
6 3⁄8 x 5 ¼in. (16.2 x 13.4cm.)
Private London collection since 1990s
The
mise en page of our manuscript, which uses a combination of gold
thuluth with black
naskh is comparable to a folio in the Russian Academy of Sciences, St Petersburg, signed by Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-'Amid al-Imam Awhad al-Din al-Khattat and dated to AH 630 / 1232-3 AH. That folio has been attributed to Eastern Iran (acc.no.C-189, published Sheila S Blair,
Islamic Calligraphy, Edinburgh, 2006, fig.6.14, p.219). The script in this manuscript is also comparable to that in two Qur'an volumes in the Keir Collection signed by a certain 'Ali ibn Ja'far ibn Asad al-Katib, which was endowed to a foundation in Damascus by the Zengid ruler Abu'l-Qasim Mahmud in the year AH 562 / 1167 AD (Basil Robinson et al.,
Islamic Painting and the Arts of the Book, London, 1976, no.VII.3 and 4, pp.287-8). The illumination in this manuscript can also be compared to the frontispiece of a Qur'an in the Khalili Collection, which has a similar knotted border and has been attributed to Iran (David James,
The Master Scribes, Oxford, 1993, no.9, p.52). Although
naskh scripts were used across the Abbasid caliphate, from Damascus to Ghazni, this manuscript is most likely to originate from the eastern Islamic world.