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OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY
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OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 394ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh within panels outlined in gold, gold and polychrome verse roundels, catchwords, sura headings in white on gold cartouches framed with polychrome illumination, marginal medallions marking hizb, sajda and juz', opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 7ll. of naskh in clouds reserved against gold ground, in original brown morocco with flap decorated with tooled central medallion and spandrels
Text panel 4 1/8 2 1/8in. (10.3 x 5.5cm.); folio 6 ¾ x 4 3/8in. (17 x 11cm.)
OTTOMAN TURKEY, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 394ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh within panels outlined in gold, gold and polychrome verse roundels, catchwords, sura headings in white on gold cartouches framed with polychrome illumination, marginal medallions marking hizb, sajda and juz', opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 7ll. of naskh in clouds reserved against gold ground, in original brown morocco with flap decorated with tooled central medallion and spandrels
Text panel 4 1/8 2 1/8in. (10.3 x 5.5cm.); folio 6 ¾ x 4 3/8in. (17 x 11cm.)
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