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SIGNED HAFIZ MUHAMMAD AL-WAFA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1231/1815-6 AD
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A FINELY ILLUMINATED QUR'AN SECTION (JUZ')
SIGNED HAFIZ MUHAMMAD AL-WAFA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1231/1815-6 AD
Juz' XXX, followed by Qur'an I, sura al-fatiha, Arabic manuscript on paper, 28ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. of elegant black naskh script, with gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, text within thick black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, opening bifolium with lavish polychrome and gold rococo illuminated margins and headpiece, colophon signed and dated, with blue paper doublures painted with gilt decoration, in contemporaneous and possibly original brown morocco binding decorated with gilt floral meanders and tooled borders
Text panel 5¾ x 3½in. (14.4 x 8.7cm.); folio 9 3/8 x 6¼in. (23.8 x 15.7cm.)
SIGNED HAFIZ MUHAMMAD AL-WAFA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1231/1815-6 AD
Juz' XXX, followed by Qur'an I, sura al-fatiha, Arabic manuscript on paper, 28ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. of elegant black naskh script, with gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, text within thick black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, opening bifolium with lavish polychrome and gold rococo illuminated margins and headpiece, colophon signed and dated, with blue paper doublures painted with gilt decoration, in contemporaneous and possibly original brown morocco binding decorated with gilt floral meanders and tooled borders
Text panel 5¾ x 3½in. (14.4 x 8.7cm.); folio 9 3/8 x 6¼in. (23.8 x 15.7cm.)
Provenance
The Saeed Motamed Collection, acquired 18 October 1994, lot 108
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