Single-volume Qur'an

The main text was copied in the 15th or 16th century, but to it were added the illuminated pages forming folios 1b–4a. They are almost an exact copy of the illuminated opening pages of a Shahnamah made at Herat for Baysunqur in 1429–30 (now in the Gulistan Palace Library, Tehran) and could have been intended for a companion Qur'an to it. In the Baysunqur Shahnamah, the illuminated opening pages bear the names of the ancient kings of Iran and a dedication to Baysunqur. In this Qur'an, however, these have been replaced by a four-page list of surahs and two pages of text, with the surah al-Fatihah  and the initial verses of surah al-Baqarah.