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An illuminated Qur'an copied by Ibrahim al-Qumi, a brother of the celebrated artist Muhammad Zaman, with an inscription in the hand of Muzaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar dated AH 1323/AD 1905, in contemporary floral lacquer binding Qajar Persia, dated AH 1101/AD 1689-90
Arabic manuscript on cream-coloured paper, 197 leaves, 19 lines to the page written in elegant naskhi script in black ink with diacritics in black and red, gold roundels between verses, inner margins of gilt double rules decorated with undulating vegetal motifs in gold, catchwords, illuminated circular devices in wide outer margins, Arabic commentaries written horizontally and diagonally in elegant nasta'liq script, sura headings written in thuluth script in red within gilt cloudbands, creased, corners rather thumbed, one double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, remargined, index of chapters and notes on the benefits of reciting different chapters added at a later date, contemporary floral lacquer binding, cover painted with central medallions on fields richly decorated with intertwining floral and vegetal motifs on a green ground, doublures with central medallions and outer borders painted in gold, slightly cracked 212 x 124 mm.