AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY MUHAMMAD AMIN AL-KASHMIRI B. MIR SHAH MUHAMMAD B. MIR AHMAD KHATIB, NORTH INDIA OR PERSIA, MUGHAL OR SAFAVID, DATED 1053 AH/1643 AD Arabic manuscript on brown paper, 560 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 11 lines to the page, the first, middle and last written in black thuluth, the intervening lines in neat black naskh, ruled in green, orange, gold and blue, verses separated by gold and polychrome dotted roundels, surah headings in red thuluth within clouds within cartouches, polychrome and gold nisf, juz and sajdahs markes in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with a polychrome and gold illuminated frontispiece, in brown stamped leather binding text panel: 22.8 by 14.2cm. leaf: 31.1 by 20.8cm.
AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY MUHAMMAD AMIN AL-KASHMIRI B. MIR SHAH MUHAMMAD B. MIR AHMAD KHATIB, NORTH INDIA OR PERSIA, MUGHAL OR SAFAVID, DATED 1053 AH/1643 AD Arabic manuscript on brown paper, 560 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 11 lines to the page, the first, middle and last written in black thuluth, the intervening lines in neat black naskh, ruled in green, orange, gold and blue, verses separated by gold and polychrome dotted roundels, surah headings in red thuluth within clouds within cartouches, polychrome and gold nisf, juz and sajdahs markes in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with a polychrome and gold illuminated frontispiece, in brown stamped leather binding text panel: 22.8 by 14.2cm. leaf: 31.1 by 20.8cm.
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