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A large illuminated Mughal Qur'an,
The manuscript is unusual in that all the attributes of God, and the opening to the instructions to believers are written in red throughout the text.
Single volume, Arabic manuscript on paper, 421 leaves, complete, 308 x 190 mm; single column, 14 lines generously portioned fine naskh script with diacritics and vowel marks in black and red, inner margins ruled in gold, red and blue, verse-endings marked with gold roundels decorated with red and blue dots, juz' divisions, and instructions such as sajdah written in white within gold illuminated marginal devices, sub-divisions within each juz', such as hizb, a third, an eighth and a quarter written in red in outer margins, catchwords, sura headings written in riqa' in red within cloudbands against a gold ground, one double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, double-page illuminated finispiece, a few small stains and finger-soiling otherwise clean internal condition; contemporary Indian tooled leather binding with embossed gold panels containing repetitions of Qur'an, sura LVI, al-waqi'ah, verse 79 ('which none may touch except the purified'), paper cartouched pasted within multiple rulings in gilt framing central panels, some paper overlays missing, rebacked and one corner repaired, extremities rubbed.
Single volume, Arabic manuscript on paper, 421 leaves, complete, 308 x 190 mm; single column, 14 lines generously portioned fine naskh script with diacritics and vowel marks in black and red, inner margins ruled in gold, red and blue, verse-endings marked with gold roundels decorated with red and blue dots, juz' divisions, and instructions such as sajdah written in white within gold illuminated marginal devices, sub-divisions within each juz', such as hizb, a third, an eighth and a quarter written in red in outer margins, catchwords, sura headings written in riqa' in red within cloudbands against a gold ground, one double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, double-page illuminated finispiece, a few small stains and finger-soiling otherwise clean internal condition; contemporary Indian tooled leather binding with embossed gold panels containing repetitions of Qur'an, sura LVI, al-waqi'ah, verse 79 ('which none may touch except the purified'), paper cartouched pasted within multiple rulings in gilt framing central panels, some paper overlays missing, rebacked and one corner repaired, extremities rubbed.
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The manuscript is unusual in that all the attributes of God, and the opening to the instructions to believers are written in red throughout the text.
Single volume, Arabic manuscript on paper, 421 leaves, complete, 308 x 190 mm; single column, 14 lines generously portioned fine naskh script with diacritics and vowel marks in black and red, inner margins ruled in gold, red and blue, verse-endings marked with gold roundels decorated with red and blue dots, juz' divisions, and instructions such as sajdah written in white within gold illuminated marginal devices, sub-divisions within each juz', such as hizb, a third, an eighth and a quarter written in red in outer margins, catchwords, sura headings written in riqa' in red within cloudbands against a gold ground, one double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, double-page illuminated finispiece, a few small stains and finger-soiling otherwise clean internal condition; contemporary Indian tooled leather binding with embossed gold panels containing repetitions of Qur'an, sura LVI, al-waqi'ah, verse 79 ('which none may touch except the purified'), paper cartouched pasted within multiple rulings in gilt framing central panels, some paper overlays missing, rebacked and one corner repaired, extremities rubbed.
Single volume, Arabic manuscript on paper, 421 leaves, complete, 308 x 190 mm; single column, 14 lines generously portioned fine naskh script with diacritics and vowel marks in black and red, inner margins ruled in gold, red and blue, verse-endings marked with gold roundels decorated with red and blue dots, juz' divisions, and instructions such as sajdah written in white within gold illuminated marginal devices, sub-divisions within each juz', such as hizb, a third, an eighth and a quarter written in red in outer margins, catchwords, sura headings written in riqa' in red within cloudbands against a gold ground, one double-page illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, double-page illuminated finispiece, a few small stains and finger-soiling otherwise clean internal condition; contemporary Indian tooled leather binding with embossed gold panels containing repetitions of Qur'an, sura LVI, al-waqi'ah, verse 79 ('which none may touch except the purified'), paper cartouched pasted within multiple rulings in gilt framing central panels, some paper overlays missing, rebacked and one corner repaired, extremities rubbed.
