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

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

Arabic manuscript on paper, 472 leaves plus 5 fly-leaves, 13 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink within clouds against a gold ground, commentaries and Persian translation written diagonally in black nasta’liq, ruled in green, gold, red and blue, verses separated by gold roundels, surah headings in blue cursive against a gold ground within cartouches, 6 polychrome and gold illuminated bifolia (ff.1b-2a; ff.74b-75a; ff.147b-148a, ff.203b-204a; ff.268b-269a; ff.471b-472a, in modern black leather binding

text panel: 18.5 by 8.6cm.

leaf: 27.6 by 15.1cm.