A small illuminated Qur'an written in maghribi script, North Africa, probably Morocco, 17th Century

Arabic manuscript on paper, 133 leaves, 23 lines to the page written in minute maghribi script in brown ink with diacritics and vowel points in brown and red, red dots between verses, inner margins ruled in yellow, blue and red, catchwords, illuminated devices in wide outer margins, sura headings written in eastern kufic or thuluth script in gold, one illuminated double-page frontispiece and one-page frontispiece in colours and gold, some crude repairs with the loss of text, contemporary brown morocco, covers richly decorated with geometric motifs in gold, with flap, doublures decorated with a gilt diaper pattern on a green ground, slightly worn
84 x 88 mm.