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paper

 6 + 303 foliated leaves + 5 : 185 x 110 (162 x 98) mm, bound to 190 x 120 mm 17 long lines with shortened sūrah titles every recto, upper left corner. Catchwords every verso, lower left. Textblock is border ruled and page-opening frame ruled. Written in naskh in black ink; pointed, vocalized. Four sets of dual page illuminations with inner borders of pink and orange flowers and outer borders of gold and blue with blue finials (f. 1v-2r, 137v-138r, 302v-303r). Six sets of simpler dual page illuminations of gold foliate marginal fill with pink and orange flower text block border (f. 2v-3r, 51v-52r, 100v-101r, 181v-182r, 221v-222r, 257v-258r). Gold and blue illuminated headpiece on second opening (f. 2v). Text written entirely on cloudbands. Textblock border-ruled in gold and blue with page-opening ruled in gold and blue. Gold roundels mark verse endings. Rubrications in red including readings, text divisions, recitation notes and short sūrah titles. Full sūrah titles in white on gold cartouche with blue end fill. Marginal foliate medallions in blue and gold hold text partition markers, short recitation notes and rukūʻ markers. Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Illuminated headpiece Dual page illumination Example of polychrome rubʿ marker Example of polychrome niṣf marker Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Dual page illumination Bookplate: "Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Company"

Lacquered binding. Outside cover has red and yellow flowers with gold tracing on black central field framed by a floral border register lined in green; inside cover has leaf-shaped design with red, orange, and yellow floral fill on a black central field framed by a floral border lined in green.

Item is undated, but likely produced in the 18th century, in Iran.

17--? Iran Purchased from the Typographic Library and Museum of the American Type Founders Company in 1941. Manuscripts, Arabic--New York (State)--New York Qurʼans Codices (bound manuscripts) Illuminations (painting) Lacquered bindings (Binding)