AN ILLUMINATED QAJAR QURAN BY MIRZA AHMAD WAQAR... Lot n° 11

Arabic manuscript on paper, 333 leaves with 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 14 lines of elegant black naskh script in clouds reserved against a gold sprinkled ground, diacritics and vowels in red, gold roundel verse markers, large gilt and polychrome floral marginal 'juz' and hizb' medallions, text within gold and blue rules, surah headings in gilt thuluth script on cartouches with polychrome floral illuminated ground, opening bifolia fully illuminated in gold and polychrome, end of the text with dedication and signed 'written by Mirza Ahmad Waqar al-Shirazi in 1271 AH'. In gilt lacquer binding. Text panel: 10.5 by 18.5 cm. Folio: 16 by 25.5 cm CATALOGUE NOTE: Mirza Ahmad (1232-1289 AH) is the eldest son of Wesal Shirazi, nicknamed Waqar. Like his father, he was a calligrapher and poet. A collection of poems in Persian called Bahram and Behrooz was published under his name. In addition to his father, his five brothers are well-known calligraphers and poets of 13th AH century . Mirza Ahmad Waqar was excellent in naskh, Raqa and thuluth script, but he was best known for his Nastaliq script. A very famous poetry by him was about the Quranic story of Moses and Khidr, which was published by Mahmoud Tavousi: "Masnavi of Khidr and Musa".