commissioned by Reza Shah Pahlavi, from a manuscript copied by Ahmad al-Nayrizi.
Iran, Bank Melli of Iran, printed privately for Reza Shah Pahlavi, 1344 SH (1965-66 AD).
Single volume, first and only edition, chromolithograph on paper, in Arabic, complete, 405 by 255 mm; printed from a manuscript copied in a fine naskh script, single column, 12 lines to the page, interlinear decorations in gilt throughout, lithographed decorative borders to every page, double page decorations to first and final double-pages of text, clean and crisp condition internally; in the original leather-backed decorated boards, decorated with floral motifs framed with in cartouches of Qur'anic excerpts, extremities very slightly rubbed, overall a very fine example.
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