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QUR'AN
SIGNED MUHAMMAD HASHIM ISFAHANI, ZAND IRAN, DATED AH 1170/1756-57 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 242ff. plus four flyleaves, each folio with 17ll. of neat black naskh in clouds reserved against a gold ground, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, text within gold and black rules, catchwords, sura headings in red thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated panels, gold and polychrome marginal medallions marking juz', sajda and hizb, the opening bifolio illuminated in gold and polychrome with an index within floral margins, the following bifolio illuminated in gold and polychrome with gold lobed medallions on a floral ground, the following bifolio illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 6ll., the final bifolio similarly illuminated with colophon signed and dated, in floral lacquer binding, floral lacquer doublures, overall good condition
Text panel 4 7/8 x 2 ¾in. (12.4 x 6.8cm.); folio 5 7/8 x 3 5/8in. (14.9 x 9.2cm.)