AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN JUZ' (XVI), COPIED BY ZAYN AL-'ABIDIN BIN MUHAMMAD AL-KATIB, AQQUYUNLU IRAN, DATED AH 902/1497-98 AD

AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN JUZ' (XVI)
COPIED BY ZAYN AL-'ABIDIN BIN MUHAMMAD AL-KATIB, AQQUYUNLU IRAN, DATED AH 902/1497-98 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, Qur'an XIX, sura al-maryam parts; Qur'an XX sura al-taha, 24ff. each folio with 7ll., the first and seventh line in black muhaqqaq, the fourth in gold thuluth and the remaining lines in black naskh ruled in gold and blue, gold verse roundels, in contemporaneous brown stamped leather binding with a central almond-shaped medallion, areas of worming
Folio 14 ½ x 11in. (36 x 28cm.)

Provenance

Probably in the Library of the nawabs of Awadh, Lucknow
American collection before 1970, thence into trust and by descent

A ROYAL AQQUYUNLU QUR'AN JUZ