A QUR'AN WRITTEN ON GOLD
A QUR'AN WRITTEN ON GOLD

SIGNED MUHAMMAD HAYAT, MUGHAL INDIA, MID 18TH CENTURY

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A QUR'AN WRITTEN ON GOLD
SIGNED MUHAMMAD HAYAT, MUGHAL INDIA, MID 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 420ff. plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 14ll. of black naskh written on panels of alternating darker and lighter gold, text panels within thick gold and thin blue ruled panels, margins with gold outer rules, catchwords, sura headings in white within white floral-edged cartouches, various points in the Qur'an marked in gold naskh in the margins, opening bifolio with dense gold and polychrome illumination framing 7ll. of text, colophon signed, later owner's stamps and marks at beginning and end, in dark green morocco with stamped central medallion and spandrels, tan morocco doublures
Text panel 4¼ x 2 1/8in. (10.6 x 5.4cm.); folio 5¾ x 3 1/8in. (14.7 x 8.1cm.)

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There are a number of Indian owner's seals on the fly-leaves of this manuscript dated AH 1204/1789-90 AD and AH 1161/1748-49 AD