SIGNED QASIM AL-MUHAJIR, QAJAR ARDABIL, IRAN, DATED AH 1314/1896-97 AD

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QUR'AN
SIGNED QASIM AL-MUHAJIR, QAJAR ARDABIL, IRAN, DATED AH 1314/1896-97 AD
Arabic manuscript on burnished paper, 312ff. plus five flyleaves each with 14ll. of black naskh with red Persian interlinear translations in nasta’liq, within gold, blue and red rules, the word ‘Allah’ picked out in gold, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, catchwords, with gold and polychrome marginal medallions, sura headings in various brightly-coloured inks in illuminated cartouches, the opening bifolio with dense illumination enclosing 3ll. of gold thuluth oulined in black, the following folio with illuminated headpiece, signed and dated colophon also stating the location of copying, in lacquer binding with swirling design and calligraphic border, with white paper doublures
Text panels 9 3/8 x 5 1/4in. (23.6 x 13.2cm.); folio 12 1/8 x 7 1/2in. (30.4 x 19.1cm.)

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Lot Essay

The patron of our Qur’an is named in the colophon as 'Ali Khan, a member of a distinguished Qajar family, his father having had a long career as diplomat and governor. He was the governor of Azerbaijan, Fars, and Gilan during Nasir al-Din Shah’s reign and in AH 1287/1870-71 AD was one of the courtiers to accompany Nasr al-Din Shah on a tour of the Shi’ite shrines in Ottoman-governed Iraq.

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