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OTTOMAN TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 305ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within illuminated cartouches, text within red and black-ruled gold frame, with gold and polychrome illuminated marginal markers, catchwords, the opening bifolio with text panels of 7ll. of black naskh script bordered with gold and polychrome illuminated margins, Qur'an text followed by prayers, with marbled paper doublures, in probably European gilt brown morocco binding with flap
Text panel 4½ x 2 3/8in. (11.3 x 6cm.); folio 6 3/8 x 4 1/8in. (16.2 x 10.5cm.)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 305ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within illuminated cartouches, text within red and black-ruled gold frame, with gold and polychrome illuminated marginal markers, catchwords, the opening bifolio with text panels of 7ll. of black naskh script bordered with gold and polychrome illuminated margins, Qur'an text followed by prayers, with marbled paper doublures, in probably European gilt brown morocco binding with flap
Text panel 4½ x 2 3/8in. (11.3 x 6cm.); folio 6 3/8 x 4 1/8in. (16.2 x 10.5cm.)