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A PERSIAN SAFAVID QURAN SHIRAZ, 16TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3002157

Arabic manuscript on paper, 241 leaves plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 14 lines of small black naskh script divided in two panels and three larger lines of alternating gold and blue muhaqqaq script, the naskh framed by gold flowering scrolls, text panels ruled in gold and polychrome borders, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black, surah headings in thuluth script within cartouches of blue ground, later catchwords, opening biofolio with dense gold and polychrome illumination surrounding light blue cartouches containing gold naskh script, the following folio with similarly illuminated headpiece. in contemporaneous brown morocco binding with flap, the exterior with gilt-stamped panels decorated with animals in a flowering landscape, the doublures with elegant découpé on a ground of yellow, green, black and white, some damages. Text panel 19.2 by 12.5 cm. Folio: 35.6 by 22.8 cm.