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SIGNED MUHAMMAD AL-SHARIF BIN AL-'ALLAM MUHAMMAD BAQIR AL-KHORASSANI, QAJAR ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1271/1854-55 AD
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A QUR'AN IN THIRTY JUZ' IN ORIGINAL BOX
SIGNED MUHAMMAD AL-SHARIF BIN AL-'ALLAM MUHAMMAD BAQIR AL-KHORASSANI, QAJAR ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1271/1854-55 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, the Qur'an separately bound in thirty juz', each folio of each volume with 12ll. of strong black naskh contained within text panels outlined in gold and polychrome, the margins with gold outer rules, catchwords, gold verse roundels, sura headings in blue thuluth in gold and polychrome illuminated panels, the juz' similarly marked at the beginning of every volume, juz' and sajada also marked with a marginal medallion, khams and 'ashr marked in red thuluth in the margins, the first folio of every juz' with a long inscription containing the signature and date, opening folio of the first volume with gold and polychrome illumination framing 5ll. of text, each juz' in original green morocco with stamped central medallion, pendants and spandrels, pink paper doublures, the thirty juz' contained within the original painted and lacquered wooden box with sliding lid, each surface of the box with raised calligraphic cartouches, pendants and spandrels with floral design, occasional losses
Text panel 6½ x 3¾in. (16.5 x 9.5cm.); folio 9 3/8 x 6 1/8in. (23.9 x 15.6cm.)
SIGNED MUHAMMAD AL-SHARIF BIN AL-'ALLAM MUHAMMAD BAQIR AL-KHORASSANI, QAJAR ISFAHAN, IRAN, DATED AH 1271/1854-55 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, the Qur'an separately bound in thirty juz', each folio of each volume with 12ll. of strong black naskh contained within text panels outlined in gold and polychrome, the margins with gold outer rules, catchwords, gold verse roundels, sura headings in blue thuluth in gold and polychrome illuminated panels, the juz' similarly marked at the beginning of every volume, juz' and sajada also marked with a marginal medallion, khams and 'ashr marked in red thuluth in the margins, the first folio of every juz' with a long inscription containing the signature and date, opening folio of the first volume with gold and polychrome illumination framing 5ll. of text, each juz' in original green morocco with stamped central medallion, pendants and spandrels, pink paper doublures, the thirty juz' contained within the original painted and lacquered wooden box with sliding lid, each surface of the box with raised calligraphic cartouches, pendants and spandrels with floral design, occasional losses
Text panel 6½ x 3¾in. (16.5 x 9.5cm.); folio 9 3/8 x 6 1/8in. (23.9 x 15.6cm.)
Engraved
On the medallions on the box, Arabic prayers and blessings on Muhammad and the Shi'a Imams, and the date AH 1285/1868-69 AD
On the opening page of each juz', A waqf inscription saying that the manuscript was endowed by a certain Isfahani merchant, al-Hajj Mir Muhammad Husayn son of Hajji Mir 'Ali Naqi. The inscriptions are all dated between Muharram and the last day of Safar AH 1271/October to 22 November 1854 AD.
On the opening page of each juz', A waqf inscription saying that the manuscript was endowed by a certain Isfahani merchant, al-Hajj Mir Muhammad Husayn son of Hajji Mir 'Ali Naqi. The inscriptions are all dated between Muharram and the last day of Safar AH 1271/October to 22 November 1854 AD.
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