COPIED BY FAYZALLAH AL-LAHURI, INDIA, AH 1178/1764-5 AD

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QUR'AN
COPIED BY FAYZALLAH AL-LAHURI, INDIA, AH 1178/1764-5 AD
Arabic manuscript on thin paper, 477ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each with 13ll. of black naskh on gold-sprinkled ground with black-ruled margins and outer rule, juz quarter divisions in gold and blue marginal medallions, white 'ain in gold medallions marking verses and gold roundel verse markers within the text, sura headings in white on gold ground, opening bifolio with pink, blue and gold illumination, the main text followed by prayers to be read in concluding the recitation of the Qur'an, colophon stating that it was copied by Fayzallah al-Lahuri in 1178, gold stamped leather binding with central medallions reading mehd Qur'an, doublures red with gilt medallion, rebound, slight staining and damages
Folio 4 7/8 x 3½in. (12.4 x 8.9cm.); Text 3½ x 1¾in. (8.9 x 4.4cm.)

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Lot Essay

Faiyzallah was the brother of another late Mughal scribe 'Ismatullah Khan, and was a naskh scribe famous for copying many Qur'ans (Ghulam Muhammad Dihlavi, The Tadhkira-i-khushnavisan, Calcutta, 1910, p.127). Two calligraphic pages in an album of naskh are recorded by Faiyzallah who signed himself as a student of Muhammad 'Arif Yaqut Raqam Khan (Mehdi Bayani, Ahval va asar-e khosh-nevisan, vol. VI, Teheran, 1358 sh., p. 121). Muhammad 'Arif was titled Yaqut Raqam Khan by Shah 'Alam (1119-24/AD 1707-1712) and reached a high standard in both naskh and thulth (Dihlavi, op. cit., p.126).

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