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227 - QUR’AN FOLLOWED BY A FALNAMA
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Estimate €12,000 - €18,000
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QUR’AN FOLLOWED BY A FALNAMA Possibly Gujarat or Sindh, India, 16th century; the falnama signed Mu’izz al-din ‘Urf Chhadu (?) b. Shaykh, dated Tuesday Rabi’ II 1073 H / December 1662 Arabic manuscript on paper, 272 folios plus two modern endpapers, 15 lines of text per page, the first, middle and last lines in large muhaqqaq script, framing two panels of text in naskh script, blue, black and gold jadwal, verses marked with small gold sequins, surah titles in thuluth within illuminated cartouches, the first folio decorated with a polychrome shamsa, the first double-page spread decorated with a polychrome frontispiece, the Fatiha and the beginning of al-Baqara copied onto a richly illuminated double-page spread, the Qur’anic text followed by a falnama (15 folios), signed and dated, numerous marginal medallions, later annotations in the upper margin, in a 19th-century binding of dark green morocco leather, apparently complete. Dimensions: 14 x 7.5 cm (text panel); 19.5 x 11.5 cm (leaf) Provenance: Formerly in the collection of a senior Algerian diplomat, received as a gift from a counterpart posted in India in the 1980s, then passed down through the family A Rare Mughal Qur’an in the Sultanate Style, Perhaps from Gujarat or Sindh, 16th century; followed by a falnama dated Rabi’ II 1073 H / December 1662
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About the sale Archaeology & Oriental Arts
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Auction time 11/17/2026 at 2:00 PM
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