A MINIATURE QUR'AN SIGNED AHMAD AL-HAFIZ AL-KASHANI, HERAT OR TABRIZ...
A MINIATURE QUR'AN
SIGNED AHMAD AL-HAFIZ AL-KASHANI, HERAT OR TABRIZ, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED 12 JUMADA II AH 943 / 26 NOVEMBER 1536 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, two flyleaves, each folio with 12ll. black ghubari script, gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in gold thuluth set between blue rules, in gold and blue rules, the margins plain, the opening bifolio with 8ll. reserved against cloudbands in fine illuminated margins, the binding gilt tooled black leather, the doublures blue leather with gold and black decoupé, with silver case
2 ¼in. (5.8cm.) diam.
Provenance
Demir 'Ali Arza, Korçë, Albania, 1905
Thence by descent
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A MINIATURE QUR'AN
SIGNED AHMAD AL-HAFIZ AL-KASHANI, HERAT OR TABRIZ, SAFAVID IRAN, DATED 12 JUMADA II AH 943 / 26 NOVEMBER 1536 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, two flyleaves, each folio with 12ll. black ghubari script, gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in gold thuluth set between blue rules, in gold and blue rules, the margins plain, the opening bifolio with 8ll. reserved against cloudbands in fine illuminated margins, the binding gilt tooled black leather, the doublures blue leather with gold and black decoupé, with silver case
2 ¼in. (5.8cm.) diam.
Provenance
Demir 'Ali Arza, Korçë, Albania, 1905
Thence by descent
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