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SIGNED 'ABD AL-QADIR AL-KHULUSI AL-NAQASHBANDI AL-STRUGAHWI, OTTOMAN BALKANS, PROBABLY MACEDONIA, DATED AH 1288/1871-2 AD
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SIGNED 'ABD AL-QADIR AL-KHULUSI AL-NAQASHBANDI AL-STRUGAHWI, OTTOMAN BALKANS, PROBABLY MACEDONIA, DATED AH 1288/1871-2 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 285ff. plus six fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in blue thuluth script in gold and polychrome floral illuminated cartouches, text within red and black-ruled gold frame, marginal juz' markers in gold and polychrome floral illuminated medallions, section markers in red thuluth script, with catchwords, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces, colophon signed and dated, with old defaced waqf marks, with marbled paper doublures, in original gilt and silvered green morocco binding with flap, in very good condition
Text panel 9¾ x 5½in. (24.6 x 14cm.); folio 18 1/8 x 10 5/8in. (45.9 x 27cm.)
SIGNED 'ABD AL-QADIR AL-KHULUSI AL-NAQASHBANDI AL-STRUGAHWI, OTTOMAN BALKANS, PROBABLY MACEDONIA, DATED AH 1288/1871-2 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 285ff. plus six fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in blue thuluth script in gold and polychrome floral illuminated cartouches, text within red and black-ruled gold frame, marginal juz' markers in gold and polychrome floral illuminated medallions, section markers in red thuluth script, with catchwords, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces, colophon signed and dated, with old defaced waqf marks, with marbled paper doublures, in original gilt and silvered green morocco binding with flap, in very good condition
Text panel 9¾ x 5½in. (24.6 x 14cm.); folio 18 1/8 x 10 5/8in. (45.9 x 27cm.)