An Illuminated Miniature Quran, Copied by Husayn Ibn Husayn Al-Hasan Al-Husayni, Persia, Safavid, 16th Century

Arabic manuscript on paper, 338 leaves, 17 lines to the page written in minute Ghubari script in black ink, verses separated by gold dots, surah headings in gold-ground panels, final 4 pages with foliate scrolling flowers surrounding the text boxes, 4 opening pages of illumination comprising intertwining gold split-palmettes and polychrome flowers, red morocco binding with filigree-cut leather doublures behind which a blue ground, outer binding gilt-stamped with a complex interlace of scrolling arabesques

In good overall condition, some rubbing to illumination, minor nibbles to leaf edges, pages generally clean, as viewed.
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This is a fine and rare example of miniature Qur'an production in the early Safavid period. It can be compared to a slightly larger miniature Qur'an in the Nasser D.Khalili Collection, London, which was produced in the same period but was attributed to the Ottoman Empire (see Rogers 1995, p.55, no.19).