Lot 240
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Koran [Capt. Harry Goldie]
Rare Books, Maps & Manuscripts
Auction: 15 January 2014 at 11:00 GMT
Description
Manuscript Koran, doube-page first sura decorated in red, pale green, violet and heightened with gold, marginal medallions, sura headings in red, pale blue and yellow, with at either end several leaves of practice handwriting bound in, 19th century limp cloth wrappers, rebound in early twentieth century green morocco, slight fraying to corners of first 16 leaves; sold not subject to return
Footnote
Provenance: Capt., later Major, Harry Goldie. Harry Goldie served with T.E. Lawrence in the Hejaz in 1917-1919, and accompanied Lawrence and General Allenby into Jerusalem December 9th, 1917 where, according to family tradition, he picked up or was given, this manuscript Koran. For other volumes belonging to Goldie, including an "incomplete" copy of the Subscriber's or Cranwell edition of Lawrence's Seven Pillars of Wisdom given by Lawrence to Goldie, see lots 297-307 in this sale.