THE COLLECTION OF THE LATE DR. MOHAMMED SAID FARSI
QUR'AN
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 361ff. as numbered plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of strong black naskh, rosette verse markers, marginal gold and polychrome circular medallions, nisf, hizb and juz' marginal markers in gold naskh, text within gold and polychrome rules, sura headings in white naskh on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, the opening bifolio with two large illuminated shamsas one laid down on new folio, the following bifolio with carpet illumination, the first 2ff. of sura al-baqara with illuminated headpiece and text in clouds on gold ground, sura al-'umran with one silver-sprinkled paper bifolio, the last folios with prayers in Arabic and Persian, occasional smudging and waterstaining, clean repairs, in stamped brown morocco with flap
Text panel 9 3/8 x 5 3/8in. (23.5 x 14.2cm.); folio 13 1/8 x 9in. (33.3 x 22.8cm.)
SAFAVID SHIRAZ, IRAN, SECOND HALF 16TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 361ff. as numbered plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of strong black naskh, rosette verse markers, marginal gold and polychrome circular medallions, nisf, hizb and juz' marginal markers in gold naskh, text within gold and polychrome rules, sura headings in white naskh on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, the opening bifolio with two large illuminated shamsas one laid down on new folio, the following bifolio with carpet illumination, the first 2ff. of sura al-baqara with illuminated headpiece and text in clouds on gold ground, sura al-'umran with one silver-sprinkled paper bifolio, the last folios with prayers in Arabic and Persian, occasional smudging and waterstaining, clean repairs, in stamped brown morocco with flap
Text panel 9 3/8 x 5 3/8in. (23.5 x 14.2cm.); folio 13 1/8 x 9in. (33.3 x 22.8cm.)