拍品專文
The use of three different scripts, muhaqqaq, thuluth, and naskh, throughout the Qur'an is associated with the calligraphers of Safavid Herat and is here executed to exceptional effect (Nabil F. Safwat, Golden Pages: Qur'ans and other manuscripts from the collection of Ghassan I. Shaker, Oxford, pp.56-9). Nabil Safwat suggests that the use of a variety of calligraphic styles, colours and sizes cultivates a "visual and emotional awareness" in the reader (op.cit., p.57). The scribe, Muhammad bin Shams al-Din Muhammad al-Yazdi, does not appear to be recorded.