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SIGNED 'ABDULLAH AL-QARAMANI KNOWN AS IMAM ZADEH, A STUDENT OF AL-HAJJ 'UMAR EFENDI KNOWN AS KITABA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1194/1780-81 AD
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SIGNED 'ABDULLAH AL-QARAMANI KNOWN AS IMAM ZADEH, A STUDENT OF AL-HAJJ 'UMAR EFENDI KNOWN AS KITABA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1194/1780-81 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 354ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black nasta'liq script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within illuminated cartouches, the text within red and black-ruled gold frame, with illuminated marginal medallions marking the Qur'anic sections, catchwords, the opening bifolio heavily illuminated, with gold clouds interspersed between the lines of text, with later added notes, in 18th century Ottoman gilt and tooled binding with flap, the doublures of marbled paper, colophon signed and dated
Text panel 5 1/8 x 2½in. (13 x 6.5cm.); folio 8 x 4½in. (20.4 x 11.3cm.) (2)
SIGNED 'ABDULLAH AL-QARAMANI KNOWN AS IMAM ZADEH, A STUDENT OF AL-HAJJ 'UMAR EFENDI KNOWN AS KITABA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1194/1780-81 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 354ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black nasta'liq script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within illuminated cartouches, the text within red and black-ruled gold frame, with illuminated marginal medallions marking the Qur'anic sections, catchwords, the opening bifolio heavily illuminated, with gold clouds interspersed between the lines of text, with later added notes, in 18th century Ottoman gilt and tooled binding with flap, the doublures of marbled paper, colophon signed and dated
Text panel 5 1/8 x 2½in. (13 x 6.5cm.); folio 8 x 4½in. (20.4 x 11.3cm.) (2)
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