Probably Persia, second half of the 14th century.
A leaf from the same parent manuscript is published in Pages of the Qur'an The Lygo Collection, their number 63 (Will Kwiatkowski, London, 2013).
Single leaf, illuminated manuscript on thick fibrous buff paper, containing the text from Surah al-Nuh verse 28 to Surah al-Jinn verse 11, c. 470 by 310 mm; single column, 9 lines scribal black muhaqqaq script, interlinear translation to Farsi in informal black naskh, diacritics in black, surah heading in the form of two illuminated panels of gold and red with surah heading in white thuluth, verses marked with gold rosettes decorated with red and blue dots, light finger-soiling, early paper repair to outer margin of one edge, in modern card mount.
Single leaf, illuminated manuscript on thick fibrous buff paper, containing the text from Surah al-Nuh verse 28 to Surah al-Jinn verse 11, c. 470 by 310 mm; single column, 9 lines scribal black muhaqqaq script, interlinear translation to Farsi in informal black naskh, diacritics in black, surah heading in the form of two illuminated panels of gold and red with surah heading in white thuluth, verses marked with gold rosettes decorated with red and blue dots, light finger-soiling, early paper repair to outer margin of one edge, in modern card mount.
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