300-Page Miniature Quran to Be Auctioned in UK
Expected to fetch between £2,000 and £3,000, the 18th- or early 19th-century book will be sold at Hansons Auctioneers’ Roughton saleroom on September 27.
The 300-page miniature Quran spent more than a century in the same family, passed down from ancestors who travelled widely in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
The unnamed vendor said: “My great uncles and grandfather travelled the world a great deal in the late 19th and early 20th century.
“They were connoisseurs of fine and rare data-x-items and often bought presents home for my grandmother and her sister.
“The miniature Quran was given to me for my dolls’ house when I was very young.”
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Measuring just one-and-a-half inches tall, the book was originally a sancak — a talisman carried by Ottoman soldiers and travelers for protection.
Mark Nelson-Griffiths, of Hansons Auctioneers, said: “The size of the text was a key factor in the books’ perceived power.”
Source: edp24.co.uk
