Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 504 ff., with six flyleaves; 10 lines to the page written in naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black, interlinear Persian translation in small nasta'liq script in red, interlinear rules in gold, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, verse-endings marked by gold roundels; ,with double illuminated frontispiece on ff. 1v-2r, followed by an illuminated headpiece on ff. 2v. opening of ‘sura al’baqarah’, and closing doublepage illuminated finispiece. The text of the opening sura of the Qur’an ‘the bismallah’ in a single column of five lines, in white clouds against gold ground within elaborate double frontispiece with gold, blue, orange, pink, and yellow floral scrolls; the headers in riqa' script in blue or white on a gold ground with polychrome and gold loral and interlacing motifs; with Persian exegetic commentary written in a diagonal format in the wide margins of the page. Foliated in black ink in upper left-hand corner, ‘ruba’’ nisf’ and ‘ayat’ in red ink in the outer margins of the text; with triangular floral motifs in gold and polychrome at central right and left margin of each page. In outstanding condition, with the original Kashmiri lacquer-painted binding and painted doublures with cypress trees in yellow, red, green, black and gold; collection note to the interior flyleaf with auction stamp ’27 Apr 1994, 141’; and inscribed with library seals and ownership notes following the finispiece.