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QUR’AN QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 296ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 14ll. of strong black naskh, red Persian interlinear translation in nasta'liq, text panels within gold, black and blue rules, gold and polychrome roundels between verses, catchwords, marginal hizb, nisf juz' and juz' markers in illuminated cartouches of various forms, sura headings in red thuluth on gold ground and within gold and polychrome illuminated panels, an illuminated cartouche with the name of suras in red thuluth on the upper corner of every folio, marginal notes in nasta’liq in gold illuminated cartouches, opening bifolio with elegant gold and polychrome illumination framing 6ll. of text in clouds reserved against gold ground, last folio with prayers in cusped medallions on an illuminated ground in floral designs, fly-leaves with copious later owners' notes, in contemporaneous lacquer binding with polychrome floral motifs within minor floral borders, the doublures with painted floral designs in gold on red ground 5 ? x 3 1/4in. (14.4 x 8.2cm.); folio 8 1/8 x 5 1/8in. (20.5 x 13cm.)