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Qur'an
Safavid Persia, late sixteenth century
manuscript on gold sprinkled pale buff paper, 323ff. plus eight recent flyleaves, each with 12ll. neat black thuluth-naskh, red punctuation, blue, red, green and gold stellar roundels between verses, blue, orange, brown and gold margins between black rules, outer blue and brown margin, many marginal blue cusped palmette medallions and gold floral roundels, sura headings in white thuluth within illuminated gold and blue floral panels (repaired margins) , with THIRTY-TWO FULLY ILLUMINATED DOUBLE PAGES, one at the start of each juz, together with one before the opening of the Qur'an and one for the second double page of the first juz, each of a different design, similar final single illuminated page, (some with slight damp damage), in brown morocco binding with gold and red stamped medallion, spandrels and cartouche border, similar doublures
text 9½ x 6¼in. (24.1 x 16cm.)
folio 13¾ x 9in. (34.9 x 22.8cm.)
Safavid Persia, late sixteenth century
manuscript on gold sprinkled pale buff paper, 323ff. plus eight recent flyleaves, each with 12ll. neat black thuluth-naskh, red punctuation, blue, red, green and gold stellar roundels between verses, blue, orange, brown and gold margins between black rules, outer blue and brown margin, many marginal blue cusped palmette medallions and gold floral roundels, sura headings in white thuluth within illuminated gold and blue floral panels (repaired margins) , with THIRTY-TWO FULLY ILLUMINATED DOUBLE PAGES, one at the start of each juz, together with one before the opening of the Qur'an and one for the second double page of the first juz, each of a different design, similar final single illuminated page, (some with slight damp damage), in brown morocco binding with gold and red stamped medallion, spandrels and cartouche border, similar doublures
text 9½ x 6¼in. (24.1 x 16cm.)
folio 13¾ x 9in. (34.9 x 22.8cm.)