Lot 211 A LATE SAFAVID ILLUMINATED QURAN, PERSIA SIGNED BY ABU AL-HASAN AL-SHIRAZI, DATED 1114 AH / 1702–03 AD

A Complete Qur’an, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page arranged in 21 lines of black Naskh script, finely ruled in gold and blue. Surah headings are rendered in red, with occasional marginal annotations marking khums and ʿushr divisions in red ink. The two opening bifolia are richly illuminated with gilt and polychrome decoration, framing four lines of elegant gilt Naskh and highlighted by gold verse rosettes outlined in black. The final folio bears a colophon identifying the scribe as Abu al-Hasan al-Shirazi, dated Wednesday, Rabiʿ al-Awwal 1114 AH, accompanied by two ownership seals. The manuscript is preserved in a brown morocco binding. Text panel: 5.5 × 11 cm Folio: 9 × 16 cm