KORAN
Auction Lot
BK14/101
KORAN (BK14/101) offered in our Books, Maps and Prints Sale starting on 26th August 2015 at our salerooms in Exeter, Devon.
Lot Description
KORAN Illuminated manuscript, 410 pages, 221 x 141 mm, cont red gilt morocco, with matching doublures, gilt edges, with flap, AH 1293 [1876 A D]. * the caligrapher Yayya Hilmi ''Efendi'', the illumination is of outstanding quality, including a magnificent double frontispiece, decorated in two tones of gold, light green and pale blue. Each panel of text is within a thick gold border with decorations in the margins. The tissue guards protecting the frontispiece are also exquisitely illuminated. This manuscript belongs to the Court style of Ottoman manuscripts, made as gifts and endowments. It was therefore most probably produced in Constantinople.
Department
Books, Maps and Manuscripts
Sale Information
BK14: Books, Maps and Prints
Wednesday, 26th August 2015
Okehampton Street, Exeter
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