300 leaves. Buff paper, calligraphed on both sides in Naskh script, with 15 lines per page within gold margins, intricately drawn gold circular verse markers, marginal ornaments in gold, opening bifolio with intricate and elaborate gold illumination, with surrounding decorations in blue. 13.5x9.5 cm. (5¼x3¾”), brown wallet-style morocco binding elaborately tooled in gilt, all edges gilt, morocco folding case..

A beautifully executed little manuscript Qur’an (Koran), with painstaking attention to detail, the open leaves wondrous in their intricacy. The margins are quite wide – the actual text measures 9x5.5 cm. Laid in is a handwritten note from 1982, “The writer – Al Haj Muhammad bin Ahmad bin Osman in the city of ‘KanQuarar’ written in Hagira 1210 – Age 192 yrs. Age of writer 74 ‘at time of writing.’”