AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, NORTH INDIA, KASHMIR, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY

AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, NORTH INDIA, KASHMIR, LATE 18TH/19TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on paper, 395 leaves plus 6 fly-leaves, 11 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, with the interlinear Persian translation in red nasta’liq, ruled in gold and blue, verses separated by gold roundels, surah headings in red within clouds against a gold ground, gold and polychrome verse markers in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, 3 bifolia with a border decorated with interlacing gold scrolls within the manuscript marking divisions, in light brown stamped binding

text panel: 23 by 12.8cm.

leaf: 29.8 by 19cm.