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SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
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A LARGE QUR'AN SECTION
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Qur'an XLIV (sura al-dukhan), v.1 to Qur'an XLVII (sura Muhammad), v.19, Arabic manuscript on paper, seven folios plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. to the page, the first and last in large black thuluth, the eight in large gold thuluth, framing two panels of 6ll. of black naskh, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in gold thuluth within illuminated cartouches, text within gold and polychrome rules, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, the illuminated margins around the black border a modern addition, in re-used Safavid découpé morocco
Text panel 10 ¼ x 6 1/8in. (26 x 15.8cm.); folio 15 ¼ x 9 ½in. (38.7 x 24.2cm.)
SAFAVID IRAN, 16TH CENTURY
Qur'an XLIV (sura al-dukhan), v.1 to Qur'an XLVII (sura Muhammad), v.19, Arabic manuscript on paper, seven folios plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. to the page, the first and last in large black thuluth, the eight in large gold thuluth, framing two panels of 6ll. of black naskh, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in gold thuluth within illuminated cartouches, text within gold and polychrome rules, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, the illuminated margins around the black border a modern addition, in re-used Safavid découpé morocco
Text panel 10 ¼ x 6 1/8in. (26 x 15.8cm.); folio 15 ¼ x 9 ½in. (38.7 x 24.2cm.)
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