Qur'ans & Qur'anic texts

Two leaves containing the text from Surah al-Shu'ara (XXVI:194-224), illuminated manuscript on paper, in Arabic, each leaf c. 324 by 235 mm; single column, 13 lines of black muhaqqaq, verses marked with blue and gold rosettes, verse markers in blue and gold to the margins; in modern card mount.

Single bifolium, illuminated manuscript on vellum, in Arabic manuscript on vellum, each folio c. 122 by 80 mm; single column, 13 lines kufic script in dark sepia, diacritic marked in red, verses markers in gold lobed rosettes, catchwords and a few notes to the margins in a later hand, with 3 front free endpapers at the front and and another 3 at the back, bound in modern maroon cloth, housed in matching maroon drop-box.

Oil on board, c. 460 by 590 mm, depicting pilgrims in Mecca gathering for pilgrimage around the Holy Ka'aba; some pigments crackled, the sky and tops of the buildings in the background repainted with some additional retouching to foreground and central buildings, overall bright and attractive example; housed in a modern wooden frame, early 20th-century label to the back with manuscript description of the illustration in English.