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Small Qur'an
Persia, AH 1153(?)/1740-41 AD
Manuscript on paper, 228ff., each with 19ll. neat black naskh, notation in red, with gold and polychrome roundels between verses, gold margins between black rules, sura headings in red thuluth on gold cartouches within illuminated panels, each also with a marginal shikasteh commentary about the sura, beginning and middle of each juz' and places of prostration marked marginally in red within illuminated cartouches, (slightly smudged in a few places), opening bifolio with full double page gold, blue and polychrome illumination, (slightly scuffed and damaged), final folio with colophon signed by Muhammad Hashem al-Isfahani and dated 1113 (third digit altered, possibly from a 5), contemporary lacquer binding with polychrome floral medallion and pendants on gold floral black ground, red doublures, (slight damages and scuffed edges),
text 3 3/8 x 1 7/8in.(8.7 x 4.7cm.); folio 4 5/8 x 2 7/8in. (12 x 7.4cm.)
Persia, AH 1153(?)/1740-41 AD
Manuscript on paper, 228ff., each with 19ll. neat black naskh, notation in red, with gold and polychrome roundels between verses, gold margins between black rules, sura headings in red thuluth on gold cartouches within illuminated panels, each also with a marginal shikasteh commentary about the sura, beginning and middle of each juz' and places of prostration marked marginally in red within illuminated cartouches, (slightly smudged in a few places), opening bifolio with full double page gold, blue and polychrome illumination, (slightly scuffed and damaged), final folio with colophon signed by Muhammad Hashem al-Isfahani and dated 1113 (third digit altered, possibly from a 5), contemporary lacquer binding with polychrome floral medallion and pendants on gold floral black ground, red doublures, (slight damages and scuffed edges),
text 3 3/8 x 1 7/8in.(8.7 x 4.7cm.); folio 4 5/8 x 2 7/8in. (12 x 7.4cm.)