Single-volume Qur'an

The scribe of this Qur'an was 'Abd al-Haqq Amanat Khan Shirazi, who was born in Shiraz but at an early age migrated to the Mughal court, where he rapidly achieved high rank. He was particularly famous as a calligrapher and designed the inscriptions for the Taj Mahal at Agra (completion dates 1046 AH/1637–8 AD and 1048 AH/1638–9 AD), the tomb of Shah Jahan's beloved wife, Mumtaz Mahal. He subsequently retired to a village near Lahore, where he built a great caravanserai, the Saray-i Amanat Khan, where this Qur'an was evidently written.