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SHIRAZ, MID-16TH CENTURY
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Qur'an
Shiraz, mid-16th Century
Manuscript on gold-sprinkled buff paper, 263ff. with 15ll. of neat black naskh, gold roundels between verses, sura headings in white on gold panels highlighted with polychrome leaf motifs, various gold and polychrome illuminated marginal medallions, opening bifolio with finely illuminated shamsa followed by elaborately illuminated bifolio with sura al-fatiha, followed by opening bifolio of sura al-baqara with illuminated heading and text within gold clouds, final two bifolios with falnameh similarly illuminated, generally clean condition, rebound with minor restoration, binding composed of two 17th century gold lacquer boards with floral decoration restored at edges and spine, tan morocco slip-case
Folio 5½ x 3¼in. (14.2 x 8.5cm.); text 3½ x 2in. (9 x 5cm.)
Shiraz, mid-16th Century
Manuscript on gold-sprinkled buff paper, 263ff. with 15ll. of neat black naskh, gold roundels between verses, sura headings in white on gold panels highlighted with polychrome leaf motifs, various gold and polychrome illuminated marginal medallions, opening bifolio with finely illuminated shamsa followed by elaborately illuminated bifolio with sura al-fatiha, followed by opening bifolio of sura al-baqara with illuminated heading and text within gold clouds, final two bifolios with falnameh similarly illuminated, generally clean condition, rebound with minor restoration, binding composed of two 17th century gold lacquer boards with floral decoration restored at edges and spine, tan morocco slip-case
Folio 5½ x 3¼in. (14.2 x 8.5cm.); text 3½ x 2in. (9 x 5cm.)