Arts of the Islamic World & India

A calligraphic album page, possibly from the Read 'Persian' Album, Persia, 16th-17th century

Estimate

4,000 - 6,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

ink and gold on paper, calligraphy written in naskh and nasta'liq in black ink, and thuluth in gold, within floral margins illuminated in gold

leaf: 34 by 21.8cm.

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Ex-collection Adrienne Minassian, New York, 1955

Ex-collection Stuart Cary Welch (1928-2008), New York

Sotheby's London, The Stuart Cary Welch Collection, Part One: Arts of the Islamic World, 6 April 2011, lot 44

Ebru: The Art of Marbling of Turkey, India and Iran, Art Institute of Chicago, Ryerson and Burnham Libraries, 1987

An extremely rare illustrated manuscript of the Ka'banameh (A history of the Ka'ba) by Abdulrahman Gubari (d.1566), signed by Ahmad [...] al-Khatib, Kaposvár, Hungary, dated Dhu'l-Hijjah 1080 AH/April-May 1670 AD

Estimate: 120,000 - 180,000 GBP

Ibn Battuta (d.1377), Tuhfat an-Nuzzar fi ghara'ib al-amsar wa 'aja'ib asfar, a volume from The Travels, North Africa, 17th century

Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Abu Mansur Mawhub ibn Ahmad ibn Muhammad ibn al-Khadr al-Jawaliqi (d.1144 AD), Kitab takmilat islah ma taghlat fihi al-'amma, on Arabic grammar, Near East, circa 1300 AD

Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 GBP

A large illuminated Qur'an, Persia, Shiraz, Safavid, 16th century

Estimate: 120,000 - 180,000 GBP

The Pandnameh (Book of Advice) of Luqman, copied by Mahmud ibn Ishaq, Central Asia, Bukhara, Safavid, dated 941 AH/1534-35 AD

Estimate: 15,000 - 25,000 GBP

Al-Tughra'i (d.1121 AD), Kitab mafatih al-rahma wa asrar al-hikma ('The keys of mercy and secrets of wisdom', on chemistry and alchemy), volume two, North Africa, Morocco, 19th century

Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 GBP

Ibn al-Shatir (d.1375), Nihayat al-su’al fi tashih al-usul, on astronomy, Egypt or Syria, Mamluk, 14th century

Estimate: 150,000 - 250,000 GBP

Abu Muhammad Makki ibn Abi Talib al-Qaysi al-Qayrawani al-Andalusi al-Qurtubi, al-kashf 'an wujuh al-qira'at al-sab' wa 'ilaliha wa hijajiha ('Unveiling the Aspects of the Seven Recitations'), Near East, circa 1100 AD

Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 GBP

A manuscript on fortune-telling including Ikhtiyarat al-ayyam (A treatise on hemerology, from the sayings of Ja'far al-Sadiq and the Prophet Daniel), commissioned for Catholic Maronite Khawaja Yusuf ibn Khawaja Antoine Andrea, copied by Gabriel son of Michael Asfour, probably Northern Lebanon, 1 Tammuz (July) 1778 AD

Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 GBP

An illuminated Qur'an, Persia, ⁠Safavid, 16th century

Estimate: 40,000 - 60,000 GBP