QUR'AN
QUR'AN

SIGNED MUHAMMAD BAQIR, IRAN, DATED JUMADA II AH 1114/OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1702 AD

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QUR'AN
SIGNED MUHAMMAD BAQIR, IRAN, DATED JUMADA II AH 1114/OCTOBER-NOVEMBER 1702 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 211ff. plus 6 fly-leaves, each folio with 19ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in red thuluth script in clouds on gold ground cartouches, text within gold and polychrome rules, with extensive Qajar marginal restoration, Persian marginal commentary in clouds on gold ground within illuminated medallions, catchwords, opening bifolium heavily illuminated, colophon signed and dated, in Qajar lacquered binding
Text panel 5¼ x 2½in. (13.2 x 6.3cm.); folio 7 7/8 x 4¾in. (20.1 x 12cm.)

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