QUR'AN SIGNED TANAM AL-NAJMI AL-MALIKI AL-ASHRAFI, MAMLUK EGYPT, DATED 21 JUMADA I 894/30 APRIL 1489 Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 311ff. each folio with 13ll. of elegant large naskh, illuminated florets between verses, diacritics in black, tajwid in red, sura headings in white or gold thuluth within illuminated rectangular panels mainly in blue or pink, gold reading markers in margins, double page illuminated opening frontispiece in gold and polychrome, preceded by an illuminated panel containing a dedication to Sultan Qaytbay in gold thuluth on lapis lazuli ground, each page bears a central horizontal crease, in modern brown morocco with flap, brown leather doublures Folio 26 ¾ x 18in. (68 x 45.5cm.) Provenance Sultan al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qaytbay (r.1468-1496) Hagop Kevorkian Collection, from whose estate it was sold Sotheby's London, 26 April 1982, lot 37, to the present owner
QUR'AN SIGNED TANAM AL-NAJMI AL-MALIKI AL-ASHRAFI, MAMLUK EGYPT, DATED 21 JUMADA I 894/30 APRIL 1489 Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 311ff. each folio with 13ll. of elegant large naskh, illuminated florets between verses, diacritics in black, tajwid in red, sura headings in white or gold thuluth within illuminated rectangular panels mainly in blue or pink, gold reading markers in margins, double page illuminated opening frontispiece in gold and polychrome, preceded by an illuminated panel containing a dedication to Sultan Qaytbay in gold thuluth on lapis lazuli ground, each page bears a central horizontal crease, in modern brown morocco with flap, brown leather doublures Folio 26 ¾ x 18in. (68 x 45.5cm.) Provenance Sultan al-Ashraf Sayf al-Din Qaytbay (r.1468-1496) Hagop Kevorkian Collection, from whose estate it was sold Sotheby's London, 26 April 1982, lot 37, to the present owner
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