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Qur'an, Illuminated Arabic Manuscript on Paper with Fine Lacquer Binding, Qajar, Persia, Mid-19th Century
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3,000 - 5,000 GBP
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Description
190 leaves, 21 lines per page of fine naskhi script, verses marked by gold rosettes decroated with coloured dots, margins ruled in gold, marginal commentary in Farsi in black shikasteh script within gold cloud bands, sura headings in gold thuluth against a blue or red ground, textual divisions in gold thuluth against blue in marginal cartouches, opening pages with fully illuminated, flaming lobed cartouches within panels of scrolling foliate motifs in colours and gold, frontispiece finely illuminated in colours and gold, lacquer binding with scrolling foliate motifs in black, colours and gold against a neutral ground