QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1251/1835-36 AD

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QUR'AN
QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1251/1835-36 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 309ff., one fly-leaf, each folio with 15ll. of strong black naskh alternated with smaller lines of Persian interlinear translation in red nasta'liq, text panels outlined in black and polychrome, catchwords, sura headings in white on illuminated panels, medallions in the margin with notes in shikasteh, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 6ll. of text, colophon in star on illuminated ground followed by prayers, loose in contemporaneous lacquer binding with floral motifs, the doublures with calligraphic medallions also dated AH 1251
Text panel 7 5/8 x 4 1/8in. (19.4 x 10.6cm.); folio 11 x 7in. (27.9 x 7.7cm.)

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In the medallion on the final page it is written that Ibn Muhammad 'Ali Muhammad Taqi presented the Qur'an to the library of a certain unnamed statesman (na'ib-i vala) in the year AH 1253/1837-38 AD. A Muhamamd Taqi ibn Muhammad 'Ali is known to have presented a Qur'an to Nasir al-Din Shah in Rajab AH 1268/1851-52 AD (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va Asar-e Khosh-Nevisan, Tehran 1346 sh., p.1154). This Muhammad Taqi may well be the same person who gifted our manuscript.

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