Shiraz was a significant and highly prolific center for the production of luxury manuscripts, including copies of the Qur’an, some of which were intended for export. In fact, there is evidence to suggest that this famed southern Iranian city was a major supplier of deluxe books for Turkey. Manuscripts of the Qur’an produced in Shiraz, including richly illuminated examples, must also have arrived at the Ottoman court as diplomatic gifts. Such was likely the case with this manuscript. According to a notation at the end of the text, part of which is a replacement for the original, perhaps contemporaneous with the eighteenth-century Ottoman binding, Sultan Selim II (r. 1566–74) endowed the manuscript in Edirne, presumably for the magnificent mosque complex he built there in 1568–74.

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