[Unknown] - Qur'anic leaf - 1680

A miniature leaf from a dispersed C17th Qur’an, likely from eastern Persia given the interlinear translation in red, containing the end of chapter 81, Surat At-Takwir (Putting out the Sun) v.19-29, and the illuminated header and the complete chapter 82, Surat At-Infitar (The "Sky' Splitting Open), v.1-19., which together address address the core themes of community, accountability, and the transition from worldly action to divine judgment.

Then script is black naskh, separated by red interlinear translations and contains simple roundels in gold as verse markers. The whole is framed in a thick gold line. The marginal gold and polychromatic hizb (or juz) marker was a standard convention in Persian and Ottoman Qur'ans to mark the division of the text (the hizb system used for recitation over a month). A cluster of small marginal glosses in Persian, written vertically in a fine script beneath the medallion, likely records supplementary notes. The condition is generally very good.

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