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QUR'AN PROBABLY SAFAVID HERAT, CIRCA 1560-80 Arabic manuscript on paper, 332ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh on gold-speckled paper, text panels within gold and polychrome rules, catchwords, sura headings in white thuluth on gold ground within heavily illuminated cartouches, the margins with finely drawn and illuminated medallions of various forms marking Qur'anic sections, opening bifolio with an impressive double carpet-page, followed by a bifolio with illuminated borders, numerous further bifiolios with similarly illuminated borders throughout, later Qajar annotations in elegant shikasta within gold cloudbands on most margins, in an impressive découpé leather Timurid-style binding with lattice motifs in brown and gold Text panel 5 7/8 x 3 3/8 in. (14.8 x 8.6 cm.); folio 9 3/8 x 6 ? in. (24 x 16 cm.)
The elegant and highly illuminated frontispiece of our Qur'an is representative of the Herati tradition of illumination which reached its peak during the Timurid period, but also continued in particular centres in the Safavid court. The margins of our Qur’an include numerous tafsir’s (interpretations) from the Qajar period in elegant shikasteh. The last folio includes a later added Qajar prayer to be recited upon the completion of the Qur'an along with a waqf note. The lavish decoration and multiple illuminated bifolios suggest our Qur’an was a commission for an important person or library. For a Qur'an of similar date and style of illumination attributed to Tabriz or Herat see James, 1992, cat.35, pp.132-33.