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SIGNED HAFIZ HUSAYN AL-AS'AD A STUDENT OF AHMAD AL-ZARIFI, OTTOMAN TURKEY OR BALKANS, DATED AH 1288/1871-2 AD
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SIGNED HAFIZ HUSAYN AL-AS'AD A STUDENT OF AHMAD AL-ZARIFI, OTTOMAN TURKEY OR BALKANS, DATED AH 1288/1871-2 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 272ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within cartouches, text within red and black-ruled gold frame, with marginal floral illuminated medallions, marginal section markers in red thuluth script, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome floral illuminated headpieces and text within circular medallions, Qur'anic text followed by prayers, colophon signed and dated, one folio with illuminated diagram of a sword, in probably original brown morocco binding with flap, with orange paper doublures, with associated red morocco slip-case
Text panel 4 3/8 x 2¼in. (11.2 x 5.7cm.); folio 6 7/8 x 4 3/8in. (17.6 x 10.9cm.)
SIGNED HAFIZ HUSAYN AL-AS'AD A STUDENT OF AHMAD AL-ZARIFI, OTTOMAN TURKEY OR BALKANS, DATED AH 1288/1871-2 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 272ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within cartouches, text within red and black-ruled gold frame, with marginal floral illuminated medallions, marginal section markers in red thuluth script, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome floral illuminated headpieces and text within circular medallions, Qur'anic text followed by prayers, colophon signed and dated, one folio with illuminated diagram of a sword, in probably original brown morocco binding with flap, with orange paper doublures, with associated red morocco slip-case
Text panel 4 3/8 x 2¼in. (11.2 x 5.7cm.); folio 6 7/8 x 4 3/8in. (17.6 x 10.9cm.)