AN EARLY OTTOMAN QUR'AN

OTTOMAN TURKEY, EARLY 16TH CENTURY

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AN EARLY OTTOMAN QUR'AN
OTTOMAN TURKEY, EARLY 16TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, comprising of 441ff. plus 2 fly leaves, each folio with 8ll. of naskh arranged between 3ll. of larger thuluth, gilt and polychrome rosette verse markers and marginal 'ashr medallions, sura headings in black-outlined gold within gold and and polychrome illuminated cartouches, with extremely elegant gold and polychrome illuminated opening bifolio with the text in clouds reserved against gold ground, later added colophon, in contemporaneous stamped morocco with flap, some restoration to edges of folios
Text panel 8½ x 5 7/16in. (21.5 x 13.8cm.); folio 11 3/8 x 8 1/8in. (28.8 x 20.4cm.)

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The later added colophon states that the scribe of the final six pages found the manuscript incomplete and therefore finished it. He gives his name as Ahmad Karahisari and that of the rest of the text as 'Asadullah Kirmani. The date is given as Shawwal AH 941/April-May 1535 AD. Whilst the date is believable for the manuscript, the calligraphy is not consistent with this attribution. Furthermore a close examination shows the paper on which the colophon has been written to have been added later.

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