Arts of the Islamic World & India

An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Ahmad ibn Mulla Uthman, India, Mughal, dated 1143 AH/1730-31 AD

Estimate

20,000 - 30,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Arabic manuscript on gold-sprinkled paper, 445 leaves, plus 4 fly leaves, 13 lines to the page written in naskh in black ink, within gold and blue rules, verses separated by gold roundels with blue dots, further text divisions marked by marginal inscriptions in red and blue and illuminated marginal medallions, surah headings in white on gold and polychrome illuminated panels, every fifth juz' marked by gold floral illuminated margins, f.1b and f.2a with double page illuminated frontispiece framing text, following bifolio with gold floral illuminated margins, in gilt brown leather binding

text panel: 15.6 by 8.2cm.

leaf: 22.8 by 12.5cm.

An impressive illuminated Qur'an volume, attributable to Ya'qut al-Musta'simi, probably Baghdad, Iraq, late 13th century

Estimate: 100,000 - 150,000 GBP

A rare illuminated Qur'an juz' (XXV), copied by 'Asadullah Kirmani, Persia or Turkey, Timurid or Ottoman, circa 1475

Estimate: 50,000 - 80,000 GBP

A monumental half Qur'an section in Bihari script, North India, 19th-20th century

Estimate: 20,000 - 30,000 GBP

‘Ala’-al-Din Abu’l-Hasan ‘Ali Ibn Abi al-Hazm al-Qarshi, known as Ibn al-Nafis (d.1288-89), Sharh tashrih Qanun Ibn Sina (A commentary on the anatomy in Al-Qanun of Ibn Sina), probably Iraq, Ilkhanid, dated 20 Sha'ban 734 AH/3 May 1334 AD

Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 GBP

Abu 'Abdullah al-Quda'i (d.1062 AD), Kitab shihab al-akhbar (on Prophetic traditions), copied by 'Ali ibn Sharwan ibn 'Ali al-Qazwini, probably Iraq, late Ilkhanid or early Jalayirid, dated 10 Shawal 741 AH/5 April 1341 AD

Estimate: 70,000 - 90,000 GBP

An illuminated book of prayers, copied by Mustafa, Turkey, Ottoman, dated 1155 AH/1742-42 AD

Estimate: 7,000 - 10,000 GBP

The Emperor Jahangir with Asaf Khan, India, Mughal, late 17th-early 18th century, with borders from the Late Shah Jahan Album, Mughal, circa 1650-58

Estimate: 150,000 - 200,000 GBP

Abu Bakr Muhammad ibn Zakariyya al-Razi (known as Rhazes or Rasis, d.925), Kitab al-iklil fi'l-tibb, a treatise on medicine and health, probably Iraq, Abbasid, dated 616 AH/1219 AD

Estimate: 200,000 - 300,000 GBP

An illustrated and illuminated prayer book, copied by Darwish Yusuf ibn Sinan and Marami al-Anqarawi, Turkey, Ottoman, dated 1186 AH/1772-73 AD

Estimate: 30,000 - 50,000 GBP

An Ottoman metal-thread embroidered leather wallet, Constantinople, dated 1772 AD

Estimate: 5,000 - 8,000 GBP