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A note of the first folio indicates that this copy of the Qur'an was endowed by Rajab bin 'Ali al-Shu'ayri and his wife Khadija bint 'Ali Hamza (?).
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SIGNED MUHAMMAD BIN HUSAYN, OTTOMAN OR SAFAVID PROVINCES, POSSIBLY IRAQ, DATED SATURDAY 26 RAJAB AH 992/3 AUGUST 1584 AD
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QUR'AN
SIGNED MUHAMMAD BIN HUSAYN, OTTOMAN OR SAFAVID PROVINCES, POSSIBLY IRAQ, DATED SATURDAY 26 RAJAB AH 992/3 AUGUST 1584 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 234ff., two fly-leaves, 16ll. of black muhaqqaq to the page, with red and black verse markers, sura headings in large red thuluth, marginal section markers in large red thuluth, with numerous marginal notes, opening folio with polychrome illumination, preceded by short text and tables on the seven readings of the Qur'an and old waqf inscription, with catchwords, colophon signed and dated, in tooled red morocco with flap
Folio 11 3/8 x 7 5/8in. (28.9 x 19.8cm.)
SIGNED MUHAMMAD BIN HUSAYN, OTTOMAN OR SAFAVID PROVINCES, POSSIBLY IRAQ, DATED SATURDAY 26 RAJAB AH 992/3 AUGUST 1584 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 234ff., two fly-leaves, 16ll. of black muhaqqaq to the page, with red and black verse markers, sura headings in large red thuluth, marginal section markers in large red thuluth, with numerous marginal notes, opening folio with polychrome illumination, preceded by short text and tables on the seven readings of the Qur'an and old waqf inscription, with catchwords, colophon signed and dated, in tooled red morocco with flap
Folio 11 3/8 x 7 5/8in. (28.9 x 19.8cm.)
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