Safavid Qur'anic Juz' Aqtaraba li-nas (XVII), comprising both the surah Al-Anbya (XXI) and the surah Al-Haj (XXII), in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on paper [Persia, early eighteenth century] 19 leaves (plus one flyleaf at front and back), textually complete, 9 lines in elegant black naskh, surah headings in thuluth, opening two leaves with elaborately decorated head-piece and illuminated borders in blue and gold design with interweaving vines, verses marked with roundels in gold & red, circular blue devices to margins throughout, leaves ruled in colours including orange and blue, small stains, leaves slightly darkened, margins a little wormed (not affecting text), 240 by 180 mm. (written space 165 by 95 mm.); contemporary leather over pasteboards with flap, covers with central block-stamped gold panels filled with elaborate floral designs, framed within blind-stamped floral motif border, inner covers with central medallions and outer corners cut-out of leather, decorated with black stencils laid onto blue paper, upper cover detached, worn A delicately illuminated copy of the seventeenth Juz’ of the Qur’an in a contemporary Persian stamped binding. The binding is stylistically very similar to no. 113 of Haldane, Islamic Bookbindings, 1983, with the visible horizontal join to the leather on the outer panels.
Safavid Qur'anic Juz' Aqtaraba li-nas (XVII), comprising both the surah Al-Anbya (XXI) and the surah Al-Haj (XXII), in Arabic, illuminated manuscript on paper [Persia, early eighteenth century] 19 leaves (plus one flyleaf at front and back), textually complete, 9 lines in elegant black naskh, surah headings in thuluth, opening two leaves with elaborately decorated head-piece and illuminated borders in blue and gold design with interweaving vines, verses marked with roundels in gold & red, circular blue devices to margins throughout, leaves ruled in colours including orange and blue, small stains, leaves slightly darkened, margins a little wormed (not affecting text), 240 by 180 mm. (written space 165 by 95 mm.); contemporary leather over pasteboards with flap, covers with central block-stamped gold panels filled with elaborate floral designs, framed within blind-stamped floral motif border, inner covers with central medallions and outer corners cut-out of leather, decorated with black stencils laid onto blue paper, upper cover detached, worn A delicately illuminated copy of the seventeenth Juz’ of the Qur’an in a contemporary Persian stamped binding. The binding is stylistically very similar to no. 113 of Haldane, Islamic Bookbindings, 1983, with the visible horizontal join to the leather on the outer panels.
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