AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY IBN ‘ABD AL-SAMI’ MUHAMMAD BAQIR, QAJAR, PERSIA, DATED 126[1] AH/1845-46 AD

AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY IBN ‘ABD AL-SAMI’ MUHAMMAD BAQIR, QAJAR, PERSIA, DATED 126[1] AH/1845-46 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 280 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 14 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, interlinear Persian translation in red nasta’liq, ruled in blue, red, green and gold, verses separated by gold and polychrome roundels, surah headings in gold riqa’ against a blue ground within cartouches, gold and polychrome verse markers in the margins, polychrome and gold hisb and juz' markers in the margins, marginal texts in nasta’liq within clouds against a gold ground, f.1b and f.2a with a double-page illuminated index of surahs, f.2b and f.3a with a double-page spread of illumination consisting of a central lobed panel with gold naskh against a blue ground, f.3b and f.4a with a double page of illumination, lacquer binding

text panel: 21.4 by 12.3cm.

leaf: 30.9 by 19cm.