A Qajar miniature Qur’an and Qajar fitted steel case, Iran, circa 1880, Arabic manuscript on paper, 196ff., with 20ll. of neat black naskh within gold border per page, gold roundel verse markers, surah headers in red on a gold ground, opening bifolio and closing bifolio decorated with gold and polychrome,within the original steel casket with openwork clasp, the lacquered binding covers decorated with flowers within an outer border of qur'anic text contained in cartouches, the interiors with very fine dense pattern of flowers and leaves, folio 8.8 x 5.4cmProvenance: Private family collection, USBottom left corner of the final gilt and polychrome decorated bifolio missing.