18th century A.D.. Rebound as a hardback with full leather binding, central arabesque foliage panel and foliage frame to front and back covers; title and end pages with liquid gold frame enclosing a pattern of geometric and floral blocks with Kufic script lozenge above calligraphic text; text pages with red-outlined rectangular panel and typically five lines of bold black-ink text with red diacritics and headers. 310 grams, 16.5 x 22.5 cm (6 1/2 x 8 7/8 in.).

The text is a Chinese version of the Qur'an, Juz' 25, Part 25.

From an important family collection started in the late 1950s. Property of a West London, UK, gentleman.