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SIGNED SAYYID HASSAN AL-KHULUSI BIN 'ALI KNOWN AS JAMI' BALI PASHA MU'ADHDHANI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED BEGINNING SHA'BAN AH 1257/SEPTEMBER 1841 AD

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QUR'AN
SIGNED SAYYID HASSAN AL-KHULUSI BIN 'ALI KNOWN AS JAMI' BALI PASHA MU'ADHDHANI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED BEGINNING SHA'BAN AH 1257/SEPTEMBER 1841 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 280ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in white naskh script on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, text within red and black-ruled gold frame, marginal section markers in white naskh script with floral illuminated medallions, with catchwords, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated margins and text within circular medallions, colophon signed and dated and giving the name of the scribe's teacher as Muhammad Hilmi Bajankali (?), in original stamped and gilt green morocco binding with flap, with gilt paper doublures, with original green morocco slip-case
Text panel 3 7/8 x 2 3/8in. (9.8 x 6cm.); 5 7/8 x 4 1/8in. (14.8 x 10.4cm.)

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