An unusual octagonal Qu'ran probably provincial India or Afghanistan, 15th/16th Century


Arabic manuscript on paper, 267 leaves, 17 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and black, small red roundels between verses, sura headings written in red ink, incomplete at end, first two folios remargined, brown morocco with stamped central medallions of paper onlay, rebacked, worn, detached 100 x 102 mm.
|ProvenancePrivate collection, Oregon, USA.