TRÈS BEAU ET GRAND CORAN QAJAR COPIÉ PAR ISMAI'L SHEREKI ET COMMANDITÉ PAR MUHAMMAD HASSAN KHAN (L'UN DES KHAN DES TRIBUS DES BAKHTIARI),

IRAN, DATED: 1249 H./1832-33. REPLACEMENT BINDING DATED: 1295 H./1878 Ink, gouache and gold on paper. 289 ff. including 4 blanks. Opening double-page inscribed with the beginning prayers, in red and blue in flamed lozenges, double-frontispiece richly illuminated in polychrome and gold, and double-page of end prayers, also inscribed in gold-backed lozenges, in red and blue ink. Qur'anic text inscribed in 15 lines of naskh per page, in brown ink in reserve on a gilded background. Sura titles in blue thuluth in illuminated cartouches. Persian translation in smaller red naskh in the line spaces. Subdivisions of the Qur'an in illuminated marginal medallions inscribed in thuluth. Numerous large medallions in pendants, illuminated and inscribed with hadiths of the Prophet, as well as certain hadiths of the Shi'ite Imams. The Qur'an ends with prayers followed by seven lines indicating that the manuscript was produced on the last Tuesday of the first ten days of the month of Shawwal in the year 1249 H./ Tuesday, May 28, 1833 for Muhammad Hasan Khan, son of the late Zahrabâb Khan, known as Bakhtiyâr. The manuscript ends with two pages of explanations of the Qur'an's Falnama, accompanied by the prayer at the beginning of the divination and correspondences in verse. The binding, later, dated: 1295 H./1878, in papier-mâché and lacquer, decorated with "gul-o-bolbol", the inside of the boards trimmed with a flowering branch in gold on a black background, in a frame inscribed in thuluth, with recommendations from the prophet about reading the Qur'an. Text area: 26 x 14 cm; page: 34 x 21.5 cm. Kept in the same family since its arrival in France in 1962. Passed down to the present owners.