A QUR’AN SIGNED DUST MUHAMMAD BUKHARI, HERAT, 16TH CENTURY ...

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A QUR’AN SIGNED DUST MUHAMMAD BUKHARI, HERAT, 16TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 356ff., 12 lines of black neat naskh script, highly illuminated opening bifolio, gold roundels between verses with dots, gold thuluth sura headings in ornated leafy rectangular cartouches, includes upside down red numeral information, text outlined with gold and blue, marginal gold and polychrome medallions with central Kufic inscriptions, marginal commentaries in red and black, marginal sura indicators in gold thuluth reserved in blue rectangular cartouches, dark brown binding with flap, red leather spine
NOTE; As the calligrapher mentioned in dua (pray) section, this Qur’an his twenty fourth Qur’an, he was in hopes of one hundred.