AN EARLY QAJAR ILLUMINATED QURAN, PERSIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

AN EARLY QAJAR ILLUMINATED QURAN, PERSIA, EARLY 19TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on paper, each folio with 11 lines of elegant largevblack naskh script, diacritics and vowels in red.
Persian interlinear translation in red nastaliq, marginal occasional notes indicating 'Juz' and Hizb', text within gold and polychrome rules, gold verse markers outlined in black, surah headings in white thuluth script within a polychrome decorated cartouche, two opening bifolia fully illuminated in gold and polychrome decoration framing 6 lines of elegant naskh script. Two pages at the end heavily illuminated with polychrome decoration.
In a brown leather morocco binding.
19 by 29 cm.