A QURAN ILKHANID AND MUGHAL INDIA, 14TH-17TH CENTURY A QURAN ILKHANID AND MUGHAL INDIA, 14TH-17TH CENTURY A QURAN ILKHANID AND MUGHAL INDIA, 14TH-17TH CENTURY A QURAN ILKHANID AND MUGHAL INDIA, 14TH-17TH CENTURY A QURAN ILKHANID AND MUGHAL INDIA, 14TH-17TH CENTURY A QURAN ILKHANID AND MUGHAL INDIA, 14TH-17TH CENTURY

A QURAN ILKHANID AND MUGHAL INDIA, 14TH-17TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3004015

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 152 leaves, 9 lines of black and brown muhaqqaq, tajwid in red, within gold and polychrome rules, gold and polychrome verse markers, borders with gold-speckled illumination, marginal blue thuluth marking khams, 'ashr, hizb, nisf juz' and juz', surah headings in gold thuluth on panels with black outlined floral decoration, the opening folio with gold and polychrome illuminated shamsa, the following bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 5 lines of text in clouds reserved on a gilt pink-hatched ground, the illumination and borders throughout possibly later 16th century Mughal additions, incomplete text, some marginal later owner notes.
In brown Timurid leather binding with gilt-painted central lobed medallion and borders, brown leather doublures.
Text panel: 22.3 by 16.7 cm.
Folio: 31.8 by 23.6 cm.