QUR'AN, SIGNED IBN 'ALI ASGHAR MUHAMMAD AL-ARSANJANI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED SHA'BAN AH 1284/ NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1867 AD

QUR'AN
SIGNED IBN 'ALI ASGHAR MUHAMMAD AL-ARSANJANI, QAJAR IRAN, DATED SHA'BAN AH 1284/ NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 1867 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 330ff. plus three flyleaves, each folio with 14ll. of black naskh, within gold and blue rules, sura headings in blue thuluth on gold ground, gilt rosette verse markers, catchwords, marginal medallions marking juz', hizb and nisf hizb, opening illuminated fihrist in a lattice, followed by a fully illuminated bifolio with prayers contained inside large cusped medallions, preceded by a fully illuminated bifolio with with sura al-fatiha and beginning of sura al-baqara, colophon signed and dated, in finely illuminated lacquered binding, red and gilt painted lacquered doublures
Text panel 2 5/8 x 1 ½in. (6.8 x 3.8cm.); folio 3 7/8 x 2 ½in. (9.7 x 6.5cm.)

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