A QAJAR MINIATURE QUR’AN
Qajar Iran, 19th century

Arabic manuscript on paper, 204ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 14ll. of black ink naskh script, the opening bifolio and colophon finely illuminated in polychrome and gold, the text reserved in double gold rules, diacritic marks in black, intonation marks in red, small gold circular verse markers, marginal markers in gold lobed cartouches within orange outlines, chapter headings in white ink on burnished gold cartouches, catchwords, set within gold, black, and red rules, in a painted lacquered binding, each side painted with a pair of herons beneath an oversized flowering rosebush and a butterfly on buff ground, with brown calf spine, the colophon inscribed Muhammad Amin Gilani Eshkevari, the text panel 11.6cm x 5.5cm, the folio 15.7cm x 9.4cm.

Dimensions: the text panel 11.6cm x 5.5cm, the folio 15.7cm x 9.4cm