AN ILLUMINATED KASHMIRI QURAN JUZ, 19TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on paper, 12 ff. with 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 15 lines of elegant polychrome naskh scripts on a black decorated ground, gold roundel verse markers, text within gold and polychrome rules, surah headings in white thuluth script on cartouches with gold and polychrome floral illumination. Opening two bifolia fully illuminated in gold and polychrome decoration, enclosing three lines in large gilt thuluth script reserved in clouds on a gilt ground decorated with polychrome floral motifs. In gilt stamped morocco binding, gilt stamped and painted doublures, with central panel enclosing flower heads and surrounded by spandrels containing scrolling floral. Inscriptions: surah Yasin, surah al-Fath, surah Al-Waqi'a, surah al-Mulk and surah An-Naba. 22 by 31 cm.