A Safavid qur'an, Iran, early 18th century, 213ff., Arabic manuscript on paper, 17ll. of fine, neat black naskh script on gold flecked ground, within thin gold border, thicker gold outer border, gold and polychrome verse markers, surah headers in gold, corrections in gold in margins, opening bifolio with polychrome and gold illumination, the text within cloudbands on a gold ground and floral scrolling vine to margins, the heavily worn lacquer polychrome binding upside down and with a central panel of flowers and foliage and borders of floral sprays, interior with gold iris on a red ground, folio 13.5 x 8cm.Binding upside down, opening fly leave partial, illumination opening bifolio with nibbled edges, splits to pages, losses to polychrome and gold