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SIGNED HUSAYN AL-ZAKI BIN HASSAN, A STUDENT OF MUHAMMAD HILMI, COPIED IN BALAT, OTTOMAN ISTANBUL, DATED 3 SAFAR AH 1219/31 MAY 1804 AD
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SIGNED HUSAYN AL-ZAKI BIN HASSAN, A STUDENT OF MUHAMMAD HILMI, COPIED IN BALAT, OTTOMAN ISTANBUL, DATED 3 SAFAR AH 1219/31 MAY 1804 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 303ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of neat black naskh, sura headings in white naskh on gold and polychrome illuminated panels, ’ashr and hizb marked in red naskh in the margins, juz’ marked with elaborate foliate marginal medallions, catchwords, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 7ll. of text in clouds reserved against gold ground, final folio with colophon contained in illuminated roundel giving the name of scribe, date and place of completion, framed by further gold and polychrome illumination, in original 19th century red morocco with flap stamped and painted in gold and blind tooling, green paper doublures
Text panel 4 7/8 x 2 ½in. (12.5 x 6.5cm.); folio 7 1/8 x 4 ½in. (18.2 x 11.5cm.)
SIGNED HUSAYN AL-ZAKI BIN HASSAN, A STUDENT OF MUHAMMAD HILMI, COPIED IN BALAT, OTTOMAN ISTANBUL, DATED 3 SAFAR AH 1219/31 MAY 1804 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 303ff. plus four fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of neat black naskh, sura headings in white naskh on gold and polychrome illuminated panels, ’ashr and hizb marked in red naskh in the margins, juz’ marked with elaborate foliate marginal medallions, catchwords, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 7ll. of text in clouds reserved against gold ground, final folio with colophon contained in illuminated roundel giving the name of scribe, date and place of completion, framed by further gold and polychrome illumination, in original 19th century red morocco with flap stamped and painted in gold and blind tooling, green paper doublures
Text panel 4 7/8 x 2 ½in. (12.5 x 6.5cm.); folio 7 1/8 x 4 ½in. (18.2 x 11.5cm.)
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