COPIED BY MUSTAFA DADA IBN HAMDALLAH, OTTOMAN TURKEY, AH BEGINNING OF JUMADA I 929/END OF MARCH 1523 AD

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QUR'AN
Copied by Mustafa Dada ibn Hamdallah, Ottoman Turkey, AH beginning of Jumada I 929/end of March 1523 AD
Manuscript on cream paper, 466ff. with 11ll. of fine black naskh, gold rosettes between verses, sura headings in orange on gold panels with gold and polychrome illuminated spandrels, a variety of finely drawn marginal medallions marking the juz, sajda and verse count, text within gold rules, very finely illuminated opening bifolio with similar shamsa bifolio, final folio with colophon signed Mustafa Dada ibn Hamdallah and dated beginning of Jumada I 929, excellent condition, later maroon morocco binding with flap with gold tooled decoration
Folio 5½ x 3¾in. (14 x 9.5cm.); text 3¼ x 2in. (8.3 x 5cm.)

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拍品专文

Mustafa Dada was born in AH 900/1495 AD and died in AH 945/1538 AD. He spent all his life in Üsküdar, apart from performing the Hajj and spending a a short time in Egypt. He was the son and most prominent student of Sheikh Hamdullah, who named him after his own father. The grandfather (Sheikh Mustafa Dada) was a member of the Suhrawardi Sufi order and emigrated from Bukhara to Amasya in Anatolia where Sheikh Hamdullah was born in around 840/1429. He was the calligraphy master at the Ottoman palace under Sultan Bâyezid II and he was able to elaborate a style of his own. He became known as the calligrapher's lodestar (Derman M.U., Letters in Gold, Ottoman Calligraphy from the Sabanci Collection, Istanbul, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1998. pp.46-49 and Safwat N.F., The Art of the Pen, The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, vol. V, Oxford, 1996, pp. 13 and 115).
The son copied his father's elegant naskh. This Qur'an is beautifully illuminated in blue and gold throughout and is in outstanding condition.