A miniature gold Qur'an, copied by a female scribe
A complete gold miniature Qur'an, copied by a female scribe.
12mo (140 x 950 mm). Qur'an written on thin paper. 26 ff. Written in miniature ghubar script with black ink on gold pages, surah headings and verse markers in red, colophon in white ink. Attractively decorated with traditional flower tezhib motifs in the margins. Plain brown leather ruled and decorated in gilt with fore-edge flap, marbled endpapers.
$48,926.00
A complete gold miniature Qur'an, copied by Fatimah bint Omar al-Qunawiyah, in the name of God, as commissioned by the Sufi Sheikh of Konya Abu Abdullah Yusuf bin Abdullah al-Qunawi al-Hanefi in Constantinople, completed on the 10th of Ramadan 1288 (1871). Uniquely, this manuscript was copied and decorated by a woman, for a religious leader called Abu Abdullah Yusuf, who is identified as sheikh of a Tariqa (a school or order of Sufism) and an imam. The top and bottom of the frontispiece are inscribed with quotes from the Qur'an, as common in the Ottoman tradition. The calligraphy is very fine and closely written to fit the entire text in only 26 pages; the number of lines per page varies from 70 to 90. Likely intended as a gift from Fatimah to her sheikh, it is copied and decorated meticulously on gold pages, with small floral tezhib decorations in the margins.
UK private collection.
Light wear to the spine and covers, slight browning.
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