A leaf from an illuminated Safavid Koran, Persia (Iran), circa 1575. Arabic manuscript on burnished paper. There are twelve lines of text to the page in black strong hand of naskhi script with full vowels and diacritical signs, gold ruled borders, blue centered gold roundels mark the 5th and 10th verses and marginal annotations in gold and red and poly-chromed marginal medallions.
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