Juz 19 of a Chinese Qur'an, China, dated 953AH/1546AD, Arabic manuscript on paper, 51ff., with 5 lines of black sini script to the page, vowel markers in black and corrections in red, surah headers in red, illuminated double page frontispiece 'Unwan decorated with geometrical and floral designs in gold and colours in a typical Yunnan style of mainly gold on a red ground highlighted with green and blue, original leather binding with blind tooled Islamic and Chinese influenced design, folio 25.5 x 19 cm.Provenance: Private UK collection formed in the 1960s and 70sAn excellent example of the Islamic Chinese style of Qur'anic calligraphy and illuminationThe colophon statement in red script on the last folio reads: It was copied by Shams al-Din ibn Musa al-Sini in the month of Safar of the year 953 AH (1546 AD) in the city of Yunnan one of the Chinese cities which has been honoured and blessed by Islam. Please refer to department for condition report