Lot Essay
Ahmed Nazif Effendi is recorded as being the father of one of the foremost practitioners of naskh script of the 19th Century, Hasan Riza Efendi. (M. Ugur Derman, Eternal Letters, Sharjah, 2009, p.224).
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SIGNED AHMED AL-NAZIFI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
SIGNED AHMED AL-NAZIFI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 306ff. plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh within gold bordered text panels, catchwords, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, gold and polychrome floral marginal medallions marking juz' with the appropriate number, occasional further medallions marking sajada, sura headings in white naskh on gold ground within white outlined panels, first bifolio with heavy gold and polychrome illumination surrounding 6ll. of black naskh in clouds reserved against gold ground comprising sura al-fatiha and the beginning of sura al-baqara, final bifolio similarly arranged within panels of illumination, final folio signed Ahmed al-Nazifi min talamidh Hafiz al-Qur'an al-Sayyid Mustafa al-Shukri, in green morocco with gold stamped rococco decoration and pink paper doublures
Text panel 4 5/8 x 2 3/8in. (11.6 x 6.1cm.); folio 7¼ x 4 5/8in. (18.5 x 12cm.)
SIGNED AHMED AL-NAZIFI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 306ff. plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh within gold bordered text panels, catchwords, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, gold and polychrome floral marginal medallions marking juz' with the appropriate number, occasional further medallions marking sajada, sura headings in white naskh on gold ground within white outlined panels, first bifolio with heavy gold and polychrome illumination surrounding 6ll. of black naskh in clouds reserved against gold ground comprising sura al-fatiha and the beginning of sura al-baqara, final bifolio similarly arranged within panels of illumination, final folio signed Ahmed al-Nazifi min talamidh Hafiz al-Qur'an al-Sayyid Mustafa al-Shukri, in green morocco with gold stamped rococco decoration and pink paper doublures
Text panel 4 5/8 x 2 3/8in. (11.6 x 6.1cm.); folio 7¼ x 4 5/8in. (18.5 x 12cm.)
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