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A QUR'AN JUZ'
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A QUR'AN JUZ'

OTTOMAN TURKEY, 15TH CENTURY

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A QUR'AN JUZ'
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 15TH CENTURY
Comprising the 26th juz', Arabic manuscript on paper, 26ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 3ll. of large black muhaqqaq alternated with two text panels of 3ll. of smaller black naskh, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in gold , text panels outlined with gold rules, 'ashr marked in gold muhaqqaq in the margins, later added colophon with the date of 3 Rajab AH 684/4 September 1285 AD, in contemporaneous stamped brown morocco leather binding with cusped flap
Text panel 9 3/8 x 5½in. (23.8 x 14cm.); folio 12 x 8 1/8in. (30.2 x 20.5cm.)
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Lot Essay

The nineteenth section of this Qur’an is in the Khalili collection. David James attributes it to Ottoman Turkey and dates it to the 15th century (Inv.QUR432; David James, After Timur, London, 1992, no.19, p.76). James considers the Qur’an to be a very rare survival from the period just following the Ottoman capture of Constantinople. The strength of the calligraphy as well as the understated illumination of the manuscript is a testament to the Ottoman mastery of the Arabic script and anticipates the Ottoman master scribes such as Sheikh Hamdullah who would formulate the rules for a uniquely Ottoman style of calligraphy.

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