A LARGE ILLUMINATED QURAN, NORTH INDIA, KASHMIR, 19TH CENTURY

Name: A LARGE ILLUMINATED QURAN, NORTH INDIA, KASHMIR, 19TH CENTURY
Description: Arabic manuscript on paper, 424ff., each page with 10ll. writtenin large black thuluth script, surah heading in red ink with the Basmallah enclosed in clouds reserved againgst a gilt ground, small red verse markers, tajwid and diactries in red ink, occasioanl marginal notes in red ink indicating ''Juz and Sejda'', ruled in gilt and polychrome borders. Two opening folio heavily with gilt and polychrome decoration framing 7ll. of black naskh script. Final folio with gilt and polychrome decoration, in the margin diagonally written with (Dua'a -al-Khatm).
49 by 58 cm.