Manuscript of the Qur’an, with leather binding
Persian
This hand-sized Qur'an manuscript opens with double illuminated text pages. The text has been copied in 21 lines to a page in black ink in naskh script. Chapter headings as well as verse markers have been illuminated. The main text of the Qur'an ends with a prayer on the last folio. The manuscript was copied by the scribe, Ibn Muhammad Salih Muhammad Hashim al-Isfahani, for Mirza Abu'l-Hasan in Ramadan 1188 (December 1774) according to the colophon. The manuscript has been repaired and the present leather binding with gilded decoration most likely belongs to this later phase.
Gilded leather (binding) and ink, gold, and colors on paper (text)
Zand period