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OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN SECTION (JUZ')
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Juz' X, Arabic manuscript on paper, 18ff. plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, one sura heading in gold thuluth script within black-ruled gold cartouche, text with red reading marks, within black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, opening folio with finely illuminated gold and polychrome headpiece, occasional marginal repairs, in 16th or 17th century brown morocco binding with flap, the covers decorated with gilt and stamped floral medallions
Folio 11¼ x 7¼in. (28.4 x 18.3 cm.)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH/EARLY 17TH CENTURY
Juz' X, Arabic manuscript on paper, 18ff. plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, one sura heading in gold thuluth script within black-ruled gold cartouche, text with red reading marks, within black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, opening folio with finely illuminated gold and polychrome headpiece, occasional marginal repairs, in 16th or 17th century brown morocco binding with flap, the covers decorated with gilt and stamped floral medallions
Folio 11¼ x 7¼in. (28.4 x 18.3 cm.)