SIGNED 'ARIF, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1283/1866-67 AD

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SIGNED 'ARIF, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1283/1866-67 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, with a single line of elegant gold nasta'liq written on black background within two colour gold minor borders, signed and dated along the lower edge, mounted, framed and glazed
15 7/8 x 68 7/8in. (40.5 x 175cm.)

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Inscription: Qur'an IV, sura al-nisa', v.103

It is possible that this is an early work by Arif Efendi. Born in Filibe (Plovdiv) in Bulgaria in 1830, he recieved in his ijaza from Hafiz Isma'il Efendi. On moving to Istanbul in 1876 he opened a grocery in Saraçhanebasi, for which he earned himself the soubriquet 'Bakkal'.

SIGNED 'ARIF, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1283/1866-67 AD

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