SIGNED MUHAMMAD 'ALI BIN MUHAMMAD SADIQ AL-ISFAHANI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED 20 RABI' II AH 1233/17 FEBRUARY 1818 AD

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QUR'AN
SIGNED MUHAMMAD 'ALI BIN MUHAMMAD SADIQ AL-ISFAHANI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED 20 RABI' II AH 1233/17 FEBRUARY 1818 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 269ff., two fly-leaves, each folio with 14ll. of strong black naskh, interlinear red nasta'liq Persian translation, text panels within gold and polychrome rule, catchwords, marginal medallions marking hizb, nisf and juz', khams and 'ashr marked in small red naskh, opening bifolio with elegant gold and polychrome illumination framing 6ll. of text in clouds reserved against gold ground, preceding bifolio with illumination framing medallions full of gold calligraphy, final bifolio similar, first fly-leaf with copious later owner's notes, in Qajar lacquer binding with floral motif surrounded by calligraphic cartouches, the doublures with irises
Text panel 6 3/8 x 3½in. (16.3 x 9cm.); folio 8¾ x 5½in. (22.3 x 13.8cm.)

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A note on the flyleaf records the birth of Zaynab Khanum in Rajab 1275/Febrauary-March 1859 AD

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The colophon of this manuscript states that it is the 130th copy that the scribe wrote. Two others by him, dated AH 1192/1778-79 AD and AH 1216/1801-02 AD, are in the Gulistan Palace Library. His 114th Qur'an dated AH 1215/1800-01 AD is recorded as being in the collection of Khanom Azar Mahdavi (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Tehran 1346 sh., pp.1187-1188).

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