AN ILLUMINATED TIMURID QURAN, CENTRAL ASIA OR PERSIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY AN ILLUMINATED TIMURID QURAN, CENTRAL ASIA OR PERSIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY AN ILLUMINATED TIMURID QURAN, CENTRAL ASIA OR PERSIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY AN ILLUMINATED TIMURID QURAN, CENTRAL ASIA OR PERSIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY AN ILLUMINATED TIMURID QURAN, CENTRAL ASIA OR PERSIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY AN ILLUMINATED TIMURID QURAN, CENTRAL ASIA OR PERSIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY AN ILLUMINATED TIMURID QURAN, CENTRAL ASIA OR PERSIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY

AN ILLUMINATED TIMURID QURAN, CENTRAL ASIA OR PERSIA, EARLY 15TH CENTURY

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Arabic manuscript on buff paper, a complete Quran with 11 lines to the page, written in thuluth, naskh and muhaqqaq scripts.
Each page with 3 lines in large elegant black muhaqqaq script and 8 lines in black smaller naskh script, surah headings ( name of the surah and the numbers of the verses) written in gold thuluth script outlined in black, text ruled in blue and gold borders, gold verse markers pointed in blue, diacritics and vowels in red ink, occasional marginal notes indicating "nisf juz and juz" in red ink.
Folio 1b-2a bearing the text of Surah al-Fatiha with the first five verses from surah al-Baqraa within fully illuminated panels with royal gold and blue decoration. In stamped brown morocco binding with flap.
Folio: 29.8 by 22 cm.
Text panel: 12.8 by 17.5 cm.