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SIGNED HASAN AL-SHUKRI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, BEGINNING OF RAJAB DATED 1184/OCTOBER 1770 AD
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A FINE OTTOMAN MANUAL OF ARABIC LANGUAGE
SIGNED HASAN AL-SHUKRI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, BEGINNING OF RAJAB DATED 1184/OCTOBER 1770 AD
In verse, Ottoman manuscript on paper, 54ff. plus three fly-leaves, 9ll. of black naskh to the page, each within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouche, titles of the grammatical sections in red or gold, text within red and black-ruled gold frame, with catchwords, opening bifolio with illuminated headpiece and gold floral margins, colophon signed and dated also giving the name of Hasan [..] Uskudari, in original tooled two-colour gold brown morocco with flap
Text panel 5 3/8 x 3 3/8in. (13.7 x 8.5cm.); folio 8 x 5 ¾in. (20 x 14.7cm.)
SIGNED HASAN AL-SHUKRI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, BEGINNING OF RAJAB DATED 1184/OCTOBER 1770 AD
In verse, Ottoman manuscript on paper, 54ff. plus three fly-leaves, 9ll. of black naskh to the page, each within gold and polychrome illuminated cartouche, titles of the grammatical sections in red or gold, text within red and black-ruled gold frame, with catchwords, opening bifolio with illuminated headpiece and gold floral margins, colophon signed and dated also giving the name of Hasan [..] Uskudari, in original tooled two-colour gold brown morocco with flap
Text panel 5 3/8 x 3 3/8in. (13.7 x 8.5cm.); folio 8 x 5 ¾in. (20 x 14.7cm.)
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