Qur'an - Herat - Timurid - AD1460. This manuscript leaf from a Koran 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 the Medinian Chapter 57 Al-Hadid (Iron) v.20-25 in which the concept of fleeting life versus eternal life is discussed and that everything that is destined to be comes from the behaviours of the people. The believers will be saved. The disbelievers will be cast out. The chapter is an invitation to strive in God's cause, recognising that God has the ultimate knowledge and power to grant eternal life. He is able to revive faith in the hearts of the disbelievers if they choose to open up to the word. The 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. The leaf has a single marginals (Juz), marking the 20th verse of the Chapter. Diacritical advisory script marks in red providing the reader with devotional guidance. The leaf is fully framed in gold and blue lines. There is some devotional use and a little smudging towards the lower middle but otherwise 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. 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.