An illuminated Qur'an copied by Muhammad Sharif Ahmadabadi North India, dated AH 1100/AD 1688-89


Arabic manuscript on paper, 197 leaves, 20 lines to the page written in small naskhi script in black ink, with diacritics and vowel points in red and black, small gold discs between verses, inner margins ruled in gold, trimmed with loss of catchwords, sura headings written in thuluth script in gold, the words khams and ashr written in gold in outer margins, illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, rather browned, corners thumbed, waterstaining mostly restricted to outer margins, later Ottoman brown morocco gilt 113 x 74 mm.