细节
QUR'AN JUZ' XXV
SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 28ff. plus four watermarked flyleaves, each folio with 8ll. black muhaqqaq, the word 'Allah' and the bismallah picked out in gold, tashkeel in red ink, gold roundel verse markers, three sura headings in gold thuluth reserved against polychrome illuminated panels, set within gold and polychrome rules, the margins plain with occasional illuminated medallions, the opening bifolio with 5ll. alternating black and gold muhaqqaq reserved against blue illuminated cloudbands with thuluth titles in cartouches above and below, in a contemporaneous gilt-tooled leather binding with flap, the brown leather doublures with découpé illuminated spandrels and medallion
Text panel 9 ¾ x 6 3/8in. (24.7 x 16.1cm.); folio 13 7⁄8 x 9 ¼in. (35.2 x 23.5cm.)