细节
A QUR'AN SECTION (JUZ')
SAFAVID IRAN, 17TH CENTURY
Comprising the juz' XXIX, Arabic manuscript on ivory paper, 32ff. plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 7ll. of elegant black naskh script, gold and polychrome roundels marking the end of each verse, sura headings in gold within cartouches in panels of gold and polychrome illumination, text panels within gold and polychrome rules, marginal medallions in gold and polychrome, the word Allah and the basmallahs picked out in gold throughout, opening folio with gold and polychrome headpiece, minor worm holing, some marginal staining and a couple of marginal repairs, in brown morocco with flap decorated with a large panel of stamped and tooled gilded decoration, the doublures decorated with gilded decoupé arabesque spandrels and central medallion over blue, green, black and red panels
Text panel 8 5/8 x 5 3/8in. (21.9 x 13.5cm.); folio 13 5/8 x 9in. (34.5 x 23.8cm.)