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Qur'an
Ottoman, AH 1279/1862-3 AD
manuscript on thin buff to brown paper, 302ff. plus two flyleaves, each with 15ll. of neat black maskh, punctuation in red, gold roundels between verses, gold margin between black rules, red outer rule, the corners filled with a two-colour gold and red floral motif, gold, red and blue star-shaped marginal medallions to mark the juz', the hizb and other divisions lightly marked in red, sura headings in white (rubbed) on gold cartouches within floral illuminated panels, (minor staining, damage to edges and repairs, hole in the margin of one folio), opening double folio with gold and polychrome illumination, the final folio with circular colophon within two-colour gold and red illuminated square signed by Muhammad al-Salim al-Hilmi and dated 1279 (smudged), original brown morocco binding with gold painted lattice and borders, (damaged and repaired)
folio 7 x 4in. (17.6 x 10.2cm.)
text 4¼ x 2in. (10.6 x 5.1cm.)
Ottoman, AH 1279/1862-3 AD
manuscript on thin buff to brown paper, 302ff. plus two flyleaves, each with 15ll. of neat black maskh, punctuation in red, gold roundels between verses, gold margin between black rules, red outer rule, the corners filled with a two-colour gold and red floral motif, gold, red and blue star-shaped marginal medallions to mark the juz', the hizb and other divisions lightly marked in red, sura headings in white (rubbed) on gold cartouches within floral illuminated panels, (minor staining, damage to edges and repairs, hole in the margin of one folio), opening double folio with gold and polychrome illumination, the final folio with circular colophon within two-colour gold and red illuminated square signed by Muhammad al-Salim al-Hilmi and dated 1279 (smudged), original brown morocco binding with gold painted lattice and borders, (damaged and repaired)
folio 7 x 4in. (17.6 x 10.2cm.)
text 4¼ x 2in. (10.6 x 5.1cm.)