AN ILLUMINATED LATE SAVAFID QURAN SIGNED IBN MUHAMMED... Lot n° 22

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 174 leaves with 2 fly-folio, each page with 20 lines written in red naskh script, tajwid in black and blue, reserved in clouds reserved against a pricked gold ground and ruled in gilt and blue borders, gold roundel verse markers. Surah headings in gilt thuluth script outlined in black, large gold and polychrome marginal floral motifs indicating 'the Juz and the Sajda'. Two opening pages heavily with gilt and polychrome decoration framing 8 lines of red naskh script in clouds reserved against a pricked gold ground. The last three pages with a prayer for completion of the recitation of the Quran (Due- al-Khatm) and signed Ibn Muhammed Muhsin AL-Isfahani and dated in 1139 AH/1726 AD. In later Qajar lacquer binding, central decorated with floral motifs surrounded by a Hadith written in large gilt thuluth script. 15 by 21 cm.