AN ILLUMINATED MINIATURE QUR’AN, PERSIA, SAFAVID, 17TH CENTURY

AN ILLUMINATED MINIATURE QUR’AN, PERSIA, SAFAVID, 17TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on paper, 241 leaves plus 9 fly-leaves, 16 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in black and gold, verses separated by gold roundels, surah headings in gold thuluth, gold verse markes in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, in lacquer binding decorated with flowers

text panel: 6 by 3.2cm.

leaf: 8.2 by 5cm.