QUR'AN

SIGNED AHMAD AL-NA'ILI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1276/1859-60 AD

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QUR'AN
SIGNED AHMAD AL-NA'ILI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1276/1859-60 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 303ff. plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of small black naskh within gold and polychrome ruled text panels, gold and polychrome verse roundels, catchwords, sura headings in white on gold panels, juz' marked within gold and polychrome marginal medallions, opening bifolio with dense gold and polychrome illumination surrounding cartouches with 7ll. of text in clouds on gold ground, final bifolio similarly illuminated and surrounding colophon which is signed al-sayyid Ahmad al-Na'ili min talamidh Hassan al-'Ashqi and dated 1276, repairs to first bifolio, in contemporaneous green morocco with flap decorated with gilt central cusped medallion filled with arabesque, green paper doublures
Text panel 4 3/8 x 2 3/8in. (11.2 x 5.8cm.); folio 7 1/8 x 4¾in. (18 x 11.8cm.)

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Lot Essay

Al-Sayyid Ahmad al-Na'ili was a pupil of Hassan al-'Ashiki. He was a celebrated and prolific scribe of Qur'ans, three of which are in the Türk ve Islam Eserleri Müzesi. A teacher in the Tas Mektab in Galata, he sometimes signed his works 'Galatali' and sometimes 'Eyyübi'. He died in AH 1228/1813-14 AD (Sevket Rado, Turk Hattatlari, Istanbul, 1980, p.187).

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