QUR'AN

SIGNED MUSTAFA AL-HALIMI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1214/1799-1800 AD

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QUR'AN
SIGNED MUSTAFA AL-HALIMI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1214/1799-1800 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 336ff. plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of neat black naskh, imaginative and elaborate rosette verse markers, text panels outlined in two colours of gold, catchwords, sura headings in white naskh on gold ground with floral illumination in panels outlined in bright colours, varied floral marginal markers indicating hizb and juz', nisf marked in gold naskh in the margins, opening bifolio with dense and elegant floral illumination surrounding 6ll. of naskh in clouds reserved against gold ground, colophon signed and dated and followed by 2ff. of prayers, occasional later pink marks in text, otherwise good condition, in contemporaneous brown stamped morocco with flap decorated with central medallion and spandrels and surrounded by arabesque and strapwork borders, doublures with a trellis design containing quatrefoil clusters of dots, in associated slipcase
Text panel 4¼ x 2 3/8in. (10.6 x 6cm.); folio 6 7/8 x 4¼in. (17.3 x 10.6cm.)

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Lot Essay

Mustafa al-Halimi is recorded as a master calligrapher who granted an ijaza or license to his student 'Ali Ra'if Efendi. This is confirmed by an ijaza in the library of Congress which is dated AH 1206/1791-92 AD (inv. 1-88-154.129). An anthology of Ottoman poetry offered at Sotheby's London, 6 October 2010, lot 49, contained a colophon confirming Mustafa al-Halimi as the teacher of the scribe.

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