AN OTTOMAN QURAN JUZ 20, ATTRIBUTED TO HAMADULLAH CALLLED IBN-SHAIKH, 15TH CENTURY

An Ottoman Quran section in gold, Juz 20, beginning with Surah Al-Naml, The Ants, verse 56. Arabic manuscript on paper, 27 ff. with 2 fly-leaves, 7 lines to each page page written in mansub script in gold ink outlined in black, with diacritics and vowel pointes in black, illuminated gold verse markers outlined in black and pointed in polychrome dots, inner margins ruled in red and gold, one illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, two surah headings in gold thuluth script within a rectangular panel illuminated in gold, blue and red, the basmallah in elegant gold muhaqqaq script outlined in black, re-backed original brown leather binding decorated with a stamped central medallion decorated with floral motifs, with flap. Folio: 27.5 by 19 cm.

Provenance

Private collection, United Kingdom, formed in the 1960s and 1970s. For a similar Quran section, see Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 8 April 2014, Lot 10; Bonhams, Islamic and Indian Art, 10 April 2008, Lot 30. Juz 2, 12 and 22 from the same Quran were sold at Bonhams: 14th October 1998 lot 115, 13th October 1999 lot 536, and 12th April 2000 lot 502.

Estimate € 3000 - € 5000

Lot 77