Lot 8 AN ILLUMINATED SAFAVID QURAN, WRITTEN BY MUHAMMAD ALI BIN SULEYMAN TALCANI, PERSIA AND DATED 1068 AH/1657 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 14 lines of beautiful and elegant black naskh script, diacritics and vowels in red, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black, large gilt and polychrome floral marginal 'juz' medallions', text within gold and polychrome rules. Surah headings in red thuluth script on cartouches with polychrome floral illuminated ground, two opening bifolia fully illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 6 lines of black naskh script in clouds reserved against a sprinkled gilt ground. The last page with a prayer for completion of the recitation of the Quran (Dua'a al-khatm) and signed 'written by Muhammad Ali ibn Suleyman Talcani ( al-Ṭalaqani).
Housed in Qajar lacquer binding with floral decoration.
17 by 26 cm.