A beautifully illustrated page from this medium sized but damaged Koran, written in black Naskh script. The hand that illustrated the pages is extremely elegant. A Persian interlinear translation in red has been added. A classic leaf motif border surrounds the scripture, outside of which are further framing lines in gold, red and blue. The script is from Chapter 5, Al-Ma-idah (The Spread Table), v20-26 in which the Israelites are ordered, through Moses, to enter the Holy Land and put their trust in God. However many rebellious Israelites refuse to which God casts them out for 40 years to wander in the wilderness and tells Moses not to grieve them. There is an illuminated 'juz' in the margin which signs the 25th verse of the Chapter. Simple gold aya mark the individual verses. The condition is very good, with minimal signs of devotional use. 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.