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SIGNED ISMA'IL NAJIB, A STUDENT OF AHMAD AL-ZARIFI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1258/1843-44 AD
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A SMALL QUR'AN
SIGNED ISMA'IL NAJIB, A STUDENT OF AHMAD AL-ZARIFI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1258/1843-44 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 308ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of small neat black naskh, with gold rosette and roundel verse markers with polychrome highlights, sura headings in white thuluth on gold within illuminated cartouches, text within thick gold frame, the margins with numerous illuminated medallions, catchwords, opening bifolio heavily illuminated in gold and polychrome, colophon similarly illuminated, signed and dated, in original gilt morocco, the flap now lacking
Text panel 3 1/8 x 1 7/8in. (8 x 4.9cm.); folio 4 7/8 x 3in. (12.5 x 7.8cm.)
SIGNED ISMA'IL NAJIB, A STUDENT OF AHMAD AL-ZARIFI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1258/1843-44 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 308ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of small neat black naskh, with gold rosette and roundel verse markers with polychrome highlights, sura headings in white thuluth on gold within illuminated cartouches, text within thick gold frame, the margins with numerous illuminated medallions, catchwords, opening bifolio heavily illuminated in gold and polychrome, colophon similarly illuminated, signed and dated, in original gilt morocco, the flap now lacking
Text panel 3 1/8 x 1 7/8in. (8 x 4.9cm.); folio 4 7/8 x 3in. (12.5 x 7.8cm.)
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