QUR'AN SHIRAZ, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 241ff. plus one flyleaf, each folio with 14ll. of small black naskh divided and flanked by larger lines of alternating gold and blue muhaqqaq , the naskh framed by gold flowering scrolls, text panels outlined in gold and polychrome, gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in similar text on cartouches of blue ground, later catchwords, opening bifolio with dense gold and polychrome illumination framing light blue cartouches containing gold naskh , the following folio with similarly illuminated headpiece, in contemporaneous brown morocco binding with flap, the exterior with gilt-stamped panels decorated with animals in a flowering landscape, the doublures with elegant découpé on a ground of yellow, green, black and white, some damages Text panel 7 5/8 x 4 7/8in. (19.2 x 12.5cm.); folio 35.6 x 22.8cm. (14 1/8 x 9in.)
QUR'AN SHIRAZ, SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 241ff. plus one flyleaf, each folio with 14ll. of small black naskh divided and flanked by larger lines of alternating gold and blue muhaqqaq , the naskh framed by gold flowering scrolls, text panels outlined in gold and polychrome, gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in similar text on cartouches of blue ground, later catchwords, opening bifolio with dense gold and polychrome illumination framing light blue cartouches containing gold naskh , the following folio with similarly illuminated headpiece, in contemporaneous brown morocco binding with flap, the exterior with gilt-stamped panels decorated with animals in a flowering landscape, the doublures with elegant découpé on a ground of yellow, green, black and white, some damages Text panel 7 5/8 x 4 7/8in. (19.2 x 12.5cm.); folio 35.6 x 22.8cm. (14 1/8 x 9in.)
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