Qur'an

SAFAVID PERSIA, MID-16TH CENTURY

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Qur'an
Safavid Persia, mid-16th Century
Manuscript on ivory paper, 392ff. with 12ll. of black naskh within gold clouds, blue dots between verses, sura headings in white within gold panels with polychrome floral spandrels, three opening gold and polychrome illuminated bifolios, remargined with later illumination throughout, antepenultimate folio with added colophon, in Safavid black morocco binding with red and gold tooled medallions and border cartouches, generally clean condition
Folio 9.1/8 x 6in. (23 x 15.4cm.); text 4½ x 2¼in. (11.5 x 5.5cm.)

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This Safavid Qur'an has been sympathetically restored in late Qajar times. A number of folios have been replaced, the pages remargined, illuminated marginal medallions added and the opening illuminated bifolios extended into the new margins. In addition the final three folios have been added. The colophon records this restoration work at the instance of Sarim ad-Dawla, one of the sons of Zel-i Sultan.

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