Arabic manuscript on paper, 252 leaves, plus 3 flyleaves, 17 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink in cloud bands against a gold ground throughout, verses separated by pointed gold roundels, margins ruled in gold and blue, illuminated devices in the margins combined with commentaries on the benefits of recitation in shikasteh script, surah headings in red thuluth against a gold background, double page illuminated frontispiece composed of a thick border of interlacing flowers and split-palmettes, preceded by a double page illuminated with prayers and a double page illuminated frontispiece with index of surahs, in lacquer binding with floral interlacing motifs

In overall good condition, the margins are clean with only occasional water various other stains, small, occasional smudges to the ink, the illuminated double pages with very bright colours, the binding, as viewed
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The colophon of the present manuscript states that this is the twelfth copy of the Qur’an the scribe has copied.