QUR’AN
QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 175ff. plus 12 flyleaves, each folio with 35ll. of black ghubari, gold rosette verse markers, text panels within gold and blue rules, sura headings in gold thuluth, catchwords, hizb, nisf and juz' marked in illuminated marginal medallions in red thuluth, opening illuminated fihrist in a lattice, followed by a fully illuminated bifolio with prayers contained inside large cusped medallions, following bifolio with illuminated headpiece and margins framing text in white clouds reserved against gold ground, in Qajar lacquer binding with floral motifs, red lacquer doublures
Text panel 4 ¾ x 2 5/8in. (12 x 6.7cm.); folio 6 ¼ x 4in. (15.8 x 10.2cm.)
QUR’AN
QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 175ff. plus 12 flyleaves, each folio with 35ll. of black ghubari, gold rosette verse markers, text panels within gold and blue rules, sura headings in gold thuluth, catchwords, hizb, nisf and juz' marked in illuminated marginal medallions in red thuluth, opening illuminated fihrist in a lattice, followed by a fully illuminated bifolio with prayers contained inside large cusped medallions, following bifolio with illuminated headpiece and margins framing text in white clouds reserved against gold ground, in Qajar lacquer binding with floral motifs, red lacquer doublures
Text panel 4 ¾ x 2 5/8in. (12 x 6.7cm.); folio 6 ¼ x 4in. (15.8 x 10.2cm.)
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