A. Welch, Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979)
D. James, Qur??ns and Bindings from the Chester Beatty Library: A Facsimile Exhibition (London: World of Islam Festival Trust, 1980)
Sotheby’s, 8 July 1980, lot 160
A. Welch and S.C. Welch, Arts of the Islamic Book: The Collection of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1982)
Sotheby’s, 16 April 1984, lot 147
Sotheby’s, 15 October 1984, lot 22
Sotheby’s (Geneva), 25 June 1985, Lot 1
Christie’s, 25 November 1985, lot 83
Sotheby’s, 22 May 1986, lot 243
Christie’s, 16 June 1986, lot 56
Sotheby’s, 20 November 1986, lot 279
Geneva, Calligraphie islamique: Textes sacrés et profanes = Islamic Calligraphy: Sacred and Secular Writings (Geneva: Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, 1988)
Christie’s, 10 October 1989, lot 303
Francois Déroche, The Abbasid Tradition: Qur??ns of the 8th to 10th centuries A.D. (London: The Nour Foundation, 1992)
Sotheby’s, 22 October 1993, lot 32
Christie’s, 19 October 1993, lot 35
Sotheby’s, 19 October 1994, lot 15
Sotheby’s, 26 April 1995, lot 13
T. Stanley, ‘The Qur’an on Blue Vellum: Africa or Spain?’ in The Qur’an and Calligraphy: A Selection of Fine Manuscript Material (London: Bernard Quaritch, 1996), pp. 7-15.
N. Safwat, G. Feh?rv?ri and M. Zakariya, The Harmony of Letters: Islamic Calligraphy from the Tareq Rajah Museum (Kuwait), (Singapore: National Heritage Board, 1997)
M. Guesdon and A. Vernay-Nouri, L’art du livre arabe: Du manuscrit au livre d’artiste (Paris: Biblioth?que Nationale de France, 2001)
Y. Tabbaa, The Transformation of Islamic Art During the Sunni Revival (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 2001)
M. Stevens and N. Butler (eds), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (London: Thames & Hudson, 2003)
Sotheby’s 12 October 2004, lot 1
M. Fraser and W. Kwiatkowski, Ink and Gold: islamic Calligraphy (London: Sam Fogg, 2006)
Sotheby’s 2006, lot 3
D. Roxburgh, Writing the Word of God: Calligraphy and the Qur’an (Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 2007)
Sotheby’s, 24 October 2007, lot 7
P. Jodidio, Museum of Islamic Art: Doha, Qatar (Munich: Prestel, 2008)
M. Rammah, ‘Two pages from the Blue Qur’an’, Museum With No Frontiers, available (here)[http://www.discoverislamicart.org/databaseJtem.php?id=object;ISL;tn;MusO] 1 ;2;en (Accessed XXX)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, Folio from the Blue Qur’an, Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. Available at: http://www.metmuseum.org/toali/haVfati/ho_2004.88.htm (Accessed June 25, 2009)
Sotheby’s 5 October 2010, lot 7
Sotheby’s 04 October 2011, lot 2
Christie’s 26 April 2012, Lot 39
Sotheby’s 22 April 2015, lot 62
Christie’s 27 April 2017, lot 18
Christie’s 27 April 2017, Lot 19
Christie’s 25 October 2018, lot 1
Sotheby’s 23 October 2019, Lot 107
Sotheby’s 27 October 2020, Lot 404
T. Falk (ed.), Treasures of Islam (London: Sotheby’s and Philip Wilson Publishers)
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