A Fine and Large Illuminated Qur'an, copied by Shaykh Kamal Al-Din Abdulhaq, Persia, Safavid, 16th Century Arabic manuscript on paper, 323 leaves, 12 lines to the page, written in Naskhi script in black ink, verses separated by gold florets embellished with blue dots, marginal illuminations in the form of roundels with polychrome concentric circles filled with flowers, surah headings written in white Thuluth within gold ground cartouches filled with polychrome flowers, within rectangular panels with blue borders, 3 double page illuminated frontispieces, including double shamsa, opening sura executed within elaborate florally illuminated panels with strapwork borders and filled with interlacing arabesques and cloudbands, surah Al-Baqara with illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, the text written within cloudbands against a gold ground sprinkled with flowers, margins ruled in colours and gold, 2 double page illuminated finispieces, red morocco binding with gilt-stamped covers filled with rigorous and dense floral scrolls and cloudbands, the doubles finely worked in gold filigree against coloured grounds, with further gilt-stamped corresponding decoration 36 by 25.2cm.
A Fine and Large Illuminated Qur'an, copied by Shaykh Kamal Al-Din Abdulhaq, Persia, Safavid, 16th Century Arabic manuscript on paper, 323 leaves, 12 lines to the page, written in Naskhi script in black ink, verses separated by gold florets embellished with blue dots, marginal illuminations in the form of roundels with polychrome concentric circles filled with flowers, surah headings written in white Thuluth within gold ground cartouches filled with polychrome flowers, within rectangular panels with blue borders, 3 double page illuminated frontispieces, including double shamsa, opening sura executed within elaborate florally illuminated panels with strapwork borders and filled with interlacing arabesques and cloudbands, surah Al-Baqara with illuminated headpiece in colours and gold, the text written within cloudbands against a gold ground sprinkled with flowers, margins ruled in colours and gold, 2 double page illuminated finispieces, red morocco binding with gilt-stamped covers filled with rigorous and dense floral scrolls and cloudbands, the doubles finely worked in gold filigree against coloured grounds, with further gilt-stamped corresponding decoration 36 by 25.2cm.
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