Unknown - Qur'an - Herat - 1460

Qur'an - Herat - Timurid - AD1460. This manuscript leaf from a Qur'an scribed shortly after Shah Rukh’s reign at a time of great political turmoil. It contains scripture from the Medinian Surah Al-Ma'idah (The Spread Table), v.96-101. These address several important legal and ethical themes: the sanctity of the Ka'bah, (which is at the centre of Islam's most important mosque and holiest site, the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca); pilgrimage rights; the balance between divine justice and mercy; the limited role of a prophet as a messenger rather than as a compeller of belief; and proactive guidance on intellectual humility - not probing into matter better left unmasked.

The leaf contains 14 lines of elegant naskhi script in black ink and in an educated calligraphic hand. The leaf has a single marginal(Juz) in blue marking the final 100th verse division of the Chapter. The leaf is fully framed in gold and blue lines.

This is 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.

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