Qur'an - Herat - Timurid - AD1460. A bi-folio manuscript from a Qur'an scribed shortly after Shah Rukh’s reign at a time of great political turmoil. It was relatively small for ease of carriage, thus was most likely for private use. The leaf contains scripture from Chapter 4 of the Book, An-Nisa (Women), v128-137 which emphasizes Allah's sovereignty over all creation and His command for all people, including those given scripture before, to have taqwa (piety/fear of Allah). It states that disbelievers still ultimately belong to Allah, whose wealth is self-sufficiency. It also commands believers to stand up for justice as witness to God even at the expense of family and friends. True belief will serve you well after death, warning hypocrites that God will not guide them to the ruches of the afterlife. Each leaf contains 14 lines of evenly spaced and elegant Naskhi script in black ink and in an educated calligraphic hand. Multiple free-hand 'aya' in a simple gold spiral mark out the verses on the leaf. Diacritical advisory marks in red provide the reader with devotional guidance. The leaf is fully framed in gold and blue lines. Illuminated marginals mark the 130th and 135th verse respectively of the Chapter. There is a little shining to the right folio and some fading around the marginals, but in general this is s a good clean copy and very well preserved for its age dating from around the time of the fall of Constantinople to Islam in 1453. Please note that shipping costs are not solely the cost of the postal delivery service itself. Included within the shipping price is the work undertaken to prepare the article, for photography, for uploading to Catawiki, for preparation and packaging the article securely and for transporting the article to the postal delivery agent for processing. Also, please consider when bidding on this lot that this artwork is shipped from the UK. Import duties will now have to be paid by the recipient to the Postal Service when the parcel arrives in your country. This will likely vary between 5% and 20% of the sale price depending on your country's Import Rate, so please check this if you are concerned. This is a Tax collected on behalf of your Government and is not an additional fee charged by us.