QUR'AN
QUR'AN

SIGNED MEHMET EMIN SUKUTI BIN ISMA'IL ZUHDI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 1 JUMADA I AH 1273/28 DECEMBER 1856 AD

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QUR'AN
SIGNED MEHMET EMIN SUKUTI BIN ISMA'IL ZUHDI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 1 JUMADA I AH 1273/28 DECEMBER 1856 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 295ff. as numbered plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in white on gold ground, marginal medallions, heavily illuminated opening bifolio, illuminated colophon indicating that the scribe was a student of Mehmet Emin Nazfi from Bursa and that this Qur'an is the scribe's 24th copy, catchwords, in burgondy stamped morocco
Text panel 4 1/8 x 2¼in. (10.5 x 5.7cm.); folio 6½ x 4in. (16.5 x 10cm.)

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