AN ARABIC MANUSCRIPT, HOLY QURAN, WITH FATH’ALLAH SHIRAZI BI...

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AN ARABIC MANUSCRIPT, HOLY QURAN, WITH FATH’ALLAH SHIRAZI BINDING, A QAJAR QUR’AN, PERSIA IRAN, 19TH CENTURY

"Dated Rajab 1283AH/ November 1866AD
Signed Muhammad Sadiq Al-Jazari
Binding signed Fath’Allah Shirazi 1299AH/ (1881-2)) AD

Arabic manuscript on gold sprinkled paper, 15ll. of black naskh script, punctuation in red, verses separated with gold roundels,text outlined with thin and thick gold rules, and a outer gold rules, marginal words in red, gold and multicoloured corner ornaments with red Arabic inscriptions in the centre, marginal commentaries in black shikasteh within illuminated gold and polychrome vertical and horizontal cartouches, sura headings in red thuluth within gold cartouche illuminated with gold leafy vines, finely illuminated opening bifolio in gold and polychrome with 6ll. of black naskh script reserved on gold ground outlined with guilloche, with lacquer signed binding,

Folio 17,7 x 10,2
Text 11,7 x 5,5 cm

Fathullah Shirazi was the most sought after Shirazi artist of his generation, following in the footsteps of Lutf 'Ali Khan. He was awarded the title of naqqash-bashi before 1289/1872-3 (Nasser D. Khalili, B.W.Robinson and Tim Stanley: Lacquer of the Islamic Lands, London, 1997, part 2, p.124)."