AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, NORTH INDIA, KASHMIR, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, NORTH INDIA, KASHMIR, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on paper, 272 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 17 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink within clouds against a gold ground, ruled with a scroll of interlacing flowers against a gold ground, verses separated by pointed gold roundels, surah headings in white against a gold ground within cartouches, gold and polychrome verse markers in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with a double-page illuminated frontispiece, six additional double-page illuminated spreads marking each manzil, f.271b and f.272a with a finispiece bifolium, in lacquer binding decorated with flowers

20 by 13cm.