[Deccan Chronicle]Sotheby’s sells 19th century Qur’an handwritten by Kashmiri artists for Rs 1.3 crore
SRINAGAR: Sotheby's, the New York-based British-founded American multinational corporation, has sold a copy of the 19th century Qur’an handwritten by Kashmiri artists for £ 137,500 (approximately Rupees 1.30 crore). “This Qur’an is one of the finest manuscripts produced in Kashmir in the first half of the nineteenth century,” a ...