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SIGNED AL-HAJJ MUHAMMAD BIN SALIH AL-LUKMI (?), OTTOMAN PROVINCES, DATED AH 1301/1883-84 AD
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QUR'AN
SIGNED AL-HAJJ MUHAMMAD BIN SALIH AL-LUKMI (?), OTTOMAN PROVINCES, DATED AH 1301/1883-84 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 466ff., six modern fly-leaves, 12ll. of bold black naskh to the page, sura headings in white reserved against gold ground on illuminated cartouches, with gold rosette verse markers, text within gold and polychrome frame, numerous colourfully illuminated marginal medallions, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces and margins, the headpieces with signature, date and indicating that this is the 25th Qur'an copied by the scribe, the last 6ff. a later replacement, in restored tooled morocco with flap
Text panel 11 x 5 1/8ni. (27.8 x 13cm.); folio 13 ½ x 8 1/8in. (34.3 x 20.6cm.)
SIGNED AL-HAJJ MUHAMMAD BIN SALIH AL-LUKMI (?), OTTOMAN PROVINCES, DATED AH 1301/1883-84 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 466ff., six modern fly-leaves, 12ll. of bold black naskh to the page, sura headings in white reserved against gold ground on illuminated cartouches, with gold rosette verse markers, text within gold and polychrome frame, numerous colourfully illuminated marginal medallions, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces and margins, the headpieces with signature, date and indicating that this is the 25th Qur'an copied by the scribe, the last 6ff. a later replacement, in restored tooled morocco with flap
Text panel 11 x 5 1/8ni. (27.8 x 13cm.); folio 13 ½ x 8 1/8in. (34.3 x 20.6cm.)
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