Name: Auction: Qur'an Miniature manuscript Qur'an, probably Ottoman territories, 19th century
Brand: Lyon & Turnbull
Price: 1512 GBP
Availability: OutOfStock

Head of Sale, Cathy Tait, is delighted to present our first Books &amp; Manuscripts auction of 2025, which took place on Wednesday 05 February in our historic saleroom in Edinburgh and online.Manuscript and archive material lead the way in the sale, with a signed letter by Mary I of England (Mary Tudor), a fascinating English Civil War medical text and an account of a voyage undertaken by the East India Company ship the “Swift”, a journey instrumental in the treatment and prevention of scurvy.Further highlights of the sale include an intriguing collection of detective and adventure novels from the golden age of mystery fiction, a near-complete collection of the output of the T.N. Foulis Press and an extremely rare 1915 copy of the Persian Gulf Pilot.Buyer's Guide:&nbsp;

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Arabic manuscript in black ink on lightweight wove paper, approx. 395 leaves (5.2 x 3.5cm), naskh script, 17 lines to the page, polychromatic floral border to opening bifolium, decorated throughout with surah-headings in red thuluth on gold ground, concentric panels around text in red, black and gold, and lobed marginal decorations including juz' markings, contemporary black shagreen binding decorated in gilt, first leaf with marginal loss

Miniature manuscript Qur'an, probably Ottoman territories, 19th century

Qur'an

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Qur'an

Miniature manuscript Qur'an, probably Ottoman territories, 19th century

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