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SIGNED MUHAMMAD HUSAYN SHIRAZI, ZAND IRAN, DATED AH 1189/1775-76 AD
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A MINIATURE QUR’AN
SIGNED MUHAMMAD HUSAYN SHIRAZI, ZAND IRAN, DATED AH 1189/1775-76 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 258ff. each with 19ll. of elegant black naskh on gold-sprinkled paper, gold verse roundels, catchwords, text within double gold and black rules, margins with outer gold rule, sura headings in gold thuluth, illuminated opening bifolio surrounding 5ll. of black naskh in clouds reserved against gold ground, colophon signed and dated by the calligrapher and by the owner, Shahab al-Din Sayyid Mahmud al-Mufti, in Baghdad, dated AH 1256/ 1840-41 AD, in brown varnished morocco decorated with gilt central medallion and spandrels, red doublures illuminated with a central blossoming flower, associated dark green leather slip case with painted gilt designs
Text panel 2 ¼ x 1 ¼in. (5.8 x 3.1cm.); folio 3 3/8 x 2 1/8in. (8.5 x 5.2cm.)
SIGNED MUHAMMAD HUSAYN SHIRAZI, ZAND IRAN, DATED AH 1189/1775-76 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 258ff. each with 19ll. of elegant black naskh on gold-sprinkled paper, gold verse roundels, catchwords, text within double gold and black rules, margins with outer gold rule, sura headings in gold thuluth, illuminated opening bifolio surrounding 5ll. of black naskh in clouds reserved against gold ground, colophon signed and dated by the calligrapher and by the owner, Shahab al-Din Sayyid Mahmud al-Mufti, in Baghdad, dated AH 1256/ 1840-41 AD, in brown varnished morocco decorated with gilt central medallion and spandrels, red doublures illuminated with a central blossoming flower, associated dark green leather slip case with painted gilt designs
Text panel 2 ¼ x 1 ¼in. (5.8 x 3.1cm.); folio 3 3/8 x 2 1/8in. (8.5 x 5.2cm.)
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