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QUR'AN
SIGNED IBN MUHAMMAD JA'FAR MUHAMMAD HASAN AL-ISFAHANI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED AH 1270/1853-54 AD
Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 231ff., four fly-leaves, 19ll. of fine black naskh within text panels outlined in gold and black, each folio with the name of the sura in a medallion in the upper outer corners, sura headings in gold on blue ground within illuminated panels, hizb, nisf, sajda and juz' marked in marginal medallions, catchwords, opening bifolio with illumination framing 6ll. of text, preceding bifolio with two medallions surrounded by floral scrolls, colophon signed and dated and followed by a similarly illuminated bifolio, in original lacquer binding
Text panel 5¼ x 3 7/8in. (13.4 x 7.3cm.); folio 7 5/8 x 4 7/8in. (19.5 x 12.5cm.)