Beschreibung:

AN IMPRESSIVE SAFAVID QUR'AN IRAN, SHIRAZ, MID-16TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 358ff. plus eight fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh on gold-speckled ground, text panels within gold and polychrome rules, sura headings in white thuluth on gold ground within heavily illuminated cartouches, catchwords, gold letters and occasional gold medallions marking Qur'anic sections, opening bifolio with large gold and polychrome paired shamsas, followed by an impressive double carpet-page, followed by bifolio with illuminated headpiece and text of al-baqara in cloud bands on gold illuminated ground, two fully illuminated bifolios at the end with prayers and a falnama, in later European red morocco binding, marbled paper doublures, remargined with minor repairs and small areas of repainting Text panel 9 1/8 x 5 ½ in. (23 x 14 cm.); folio 15 ¾ x 9 ½ in. (40.6 x 24 cm.)