Lot Essay
The colophon notes this is the eighth Qur'an the scribe has completed, and that he hopes to complete a hundred.
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SIGNED HAFIZ ‘UTHMAN AL-RUSHDI BIN KHALIL, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1256/1840-41 AD
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QUR’AN
SIGNED HAFIZ ‘UTHMAN AL-RUSHDI BIN KHALIL, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1256/1840-41 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 296ff. plus four flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh, gold leaf-shaped verse markers of varying shapes, catchwords, text panels within gold, black and red rules, marginal rosettes of various forms, sura headings in white thuluth within gold-ground cartouches with polychrome illuminations, double page illuminated frontispiece with polychrome floral decoration framing 7ll. of naskh in clouds on gold-ground, colophon signed and dated, in dark green morocco with flap, decorated with gilt and painted designs, blue embossed doublures
Text panel 4 x 2 1/8in. (10 x 5.4cm.); folio 6 5/8 x 4 1/8in. (17 x 10.5cm.)
SIGNED HAFIZ ‘UTHMAN AL-RUSHDI BIN KHALIL, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1256/1840-41 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 296ff. plus four flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh, gold leaf-shaped verse markers of varying shapes, catchwords, text panels within gold, black and red rules, marginal rosettes of various forms, sura headings in white thuluth within gold-ground cartouches with polychrome illuminations, double page illuminated frontispiece with polychrome floral decoration framing 7ll. of naskh in clouds on gold-ground, colophon signed and dated, in dark green morocco with flap, decorated with gilt and painted designs, blue embossed doublures
Text panel 4 x 2 1/8in. (10 x 5.4cm.); folio 6 5/8 x 4 1/8in. (17 x 10.5cm.)
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