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A QUR'AN SECTION IN THE STYLE OF AHMAD QARAHISARI
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A QUR'AN SECTION IN THE STYLE OF AHMAD QARAHISARI

OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH CENTURY

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A QUR'AN SECTION IN THE STYLE OF AHMAD QARAHISARI
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 16TH CENTURY
Qur'an II (sura al-baqara), vv.247-286, Arabic manuscript on paper, 8ff., each with 10ll. of strong and elegant black muhaqqaq script, with gold roundel verse markers, text within gold, blue, red and black rules, opening bifolio with finely illuminated floral margins in gold, colophon stating that this was copied by Darwish Hassan in AH 921/1518-19 AD, in 16th or 17th century Ottoman stamped and gilt brown morocco binding with flap, with yellow doublures, various Ottoman added notes
Text panel 5 ½ x 3 3/8in. (14 x 8.6cm.); folio 8 5/8 x 6in. (22 x 15.2cm.)
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The colophon states that this manuscript was copied by Darwish Hassan in AH 924/1518-19 AD. However it seems that this colophon is written in a different hand from that of the manuscript and should probably be seen as an attribution rather than an actual signature. Darwish Hassan could be the well-known student and adoptive son of Ahmad Karahisari (1470?-1556), Hassan Celebi (d.1594 AD) in which case this manuscript would have been copied very early in his life. It is noted that he had a long career and followed a style that was identical to that of Ahmad Karahisari (Ugur Derman, Eternal Letters, From the Abdul Rahman Al Owais Collection of Islamic Calligraphy, Sharjah, 2009, p. 32). A Qur'an by Hassan Celebi is in the Nasser D. Khalili Collection and another in the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin (David James, After Timur, Oxford, 1992, cat.58, pp.238-239).

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