A COMPLETE BIHARI QUR’AN, NORTH INDIA, 16TH CENTURY Arabic ...

Hammer

£5,500

A COMPLETE BIHARI QUR’AN, NORTH INDIA, 16TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on paper, 13 lines of black and red Bihari script, word of Allah in red, between verses gold lobbed roundels with dots, sura headings in multicoloured rectangular cartouches, text outlined with red and black rules, nicely illuminated polychrome marginal medallions, opening bifolio 7 lines, first, middle and last lines in red, remaining 4 lines in black ink, multicoloured frames surrounding around the text in order of circles, guilloche and diamond shapes, leather binding.