QUR'AN SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 361ff. as numbered plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of strong black naskh , rosette verse markers, marginal gold and polychrome circular medallions, nisf, hizb and juz' marginal markers in gold naskh , text within gold and polychrome rules, sura headings in white naskh on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, the opening bifolio with two large illuminated shamsa s one laid down on new folio , the following bifolio with carpet illumination, the first 2ff. of sura al-baqara with illuminated headpiece and text in clouds on gold ground, sura al-'umran with one silver-sprinkled paper bifolio, the last folios with prayers in Arabic and Persian, occasional smudging and waterstaining, clean repairs, in stamped brown morocco with flap Text panel 9 3/8 x 5 3/8in. (23.5 x 14.2cm.); folio 13 1/8 x 9in. (33.3 x 22.8cm.)
QUR'AN SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 361ff. as numbered plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of strong black naskh , rosette verse markers, marginal gold and polychrome circular medallions, nisf, hizb and juz' marginal markers in gold naskh , text within gold and polychrome rules, sura headings in white naskh on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, the opening bifolio with two large illuminated shamsa s one laid down on new folio , the following bifolio with carpet illumination, the first 2ff. of sura al-baqara with illuminated headpiece and text in clouds on gold ground, sura al-'umran with one silver-sprinkled paper bifolio, the last folios with prayers in Arabic and Persian, occasional smudging and waterstaining, clean repairs, in stamped brown morocco with flap Text panel 9 3/8 x 5 3/8in. (23.5 x 14.2cm.); folio 13 1/8 x 9in. (33.3 x 22.8cm.)
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