QUR'AN JUZ 6, 17, 22
Possibly Tabriz or Shiraz, Iran, 15th - 16th century

Arabic manuscript on paper, Juz 6 (from 4:148 to 5:81) with 30ff. plus four fly-leaves including puce inner covers, each folio with 7ll. of black naskh script, with circular gold aya markings, with red diacritic marks, within blue and gold rules, catchwords, chapter headings blank, in blind-tooled brown morocco flapped binding; Juz 17 (21 and 22) with 23ff. plus 5 fly-leaves, chapter headings in gold, no lettering; and Juz 22 (33 to 36:27) with 27ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, chapter headings in burnished gold and white lettering, in lighter binding, each text panel ca. 18cm x 11cm, each folio ca. 29.3cm x 19cm.

For two complete Qur'ans executed in a similar khatt with analogous golden sura headings, both attributed to 15th - 16th-century Iran, please see J. Michael Rogers, The Arts of Islam: Masterpieces from the Khalili Collection, 2010, QUR 4 (p.147) and QUR 251 (p. 213).