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The margins are decorated with inlaid work, excellent and a table of contents for the surahs in small, high-quality Riq'a script. Written in lapis lazuli and gold. Two pages.

The second, the text and its inlaid marginal commentary, and the prayer before recitation, in high-quality Riq'a script, in the decorated frames and half-frames, written in lapis lazuli and gold. The third page is the opening of the Qur'an, the text and its inlaid marginal commentary, and Surah Al-Fatihah and the beginning of Surah Al-Baqarah in the middle, and the title of the surah in the margin, in Riq'a script. Written on lapis lazuli text, in gold.

The fourth two pages, the text and inlaid marginal commentary, and between the lines to the end of the copy, are gilded.

The surahs and the inlaid decorative marks, and the names of the surahs in Riq'a script on the text, are decorated with gold. It is written in gold.

The properties of the surahs in the margins are in various scripts: Naskh, Shikasteh, Nastaliq, Riq'a, and Shikasteh Nastaliq, in excellent, hidden script. It is dated by Al-Qasim Farhang, son of Wusal.

The Persian translation is at the bottom of the lines, in excellent Nastaliq script, by Mahmud Hakimi, son of Wusal, dated 11.

The last two pages of the copy are in excellent, clear Riq'a script, by Ahmad Vagar, son of Wusal, dated.

The script of the Qur'an text, the copy is excellent. By Mirza Kuchak Wusal, dated.

The end: "And the word of your Lord has been completed, truthfully and justly. None can change His words, and He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing. And this is the sixty-eighth book, completed by the hand of the humble servant, the needy, Wusal. May God's mercy be upon him, in the year."

This copy, which is adorned with seven pens, inlaid work, and a contemporary binding, is a precious collection of the works of the artist Wusal Shirazi and his talented son.

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