An illuminated Qur’an, copied by Lutf ’Ali Afshar Arumi, Persia, Qajar, dated 1219 AH/1804 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 271 leaves plus 4 flyleaves, 16 lines to the page, written in naskh script in black ink, verses separated by pointed gold roundels, surah headings in red thuluth against a gold ground within cartouches occasionally decorated with gold and blue, hizb and juz' marginal markers in gold and red, ruled in blue and gold, opening gold and polychrome double-page frontispiece composed of a thick border of split-palmettes and interlacing flowers, in lacquer binding decorated with flowers

In good condition, the margins are clean with only minor annotations, minor various stains throughout and occasional smudges to the ing, the opening frontispieces with minor losses to the paint and minor retouching,but otherwise bright and crisp, the binding with losses and scratches
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