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A Qur'an by the same scribe, but dated five years later than ours was sold at Christie's, South Kensington, 11 October 2013, lot 771.
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SIGNED 'ABDULLAH AL-QARAMANI KNOWN AS IMAMZADA, A STUDENT OF AL-HAJJ 'UMAR EFENDI KNOWN AS KITABA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1189/1775-76 AD
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QUR’AN
SIGNED 'ABDULLAH AL-QARAMANI KNOWN AS IMAMZADA, A STUDENT OF AL-HAJJ 'UMAR EFENDI KNOWN AS KITABA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1189/1775-76 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 338ff. plus three flyleaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within illuminated cartouches, the text within black-ruled gold frame, with illuminated marginal medallions of various forms marking the Qur'anic sections, catchwords, occasional marginal notes in red and black naskh, the opening bifolio heavily illuminated, framing 7ll. of text, colophon signed and dated, in Ottoman gilt and tooled binding with flap, the doublures of green paper
Text area 5 ¼. x 2 5/8in. (13.2 x 6.6cm.); folio 7 ¼ x 4 ½in. (18.6 x 11.6cm.)
SIGNED 'ABDULLAH AL-QARAMANI KNOWN AS IMAMZADA, A STUDENT OF AL-HAJJ 'UMAR EFENDI KNOWN AS KITABA, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1189/1775-76 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 338ff. plus three flyleaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within illuminated cartouches, the text within black-ruled gold frame, with illuminated marginal medallions of various forms marking the Qur'anic sections, catchwords, occasional marginal notes in red and black naskh, the opening bifolio heavily illuminated, framing 7ll. of text, colophon signed and dated, in Ottoman gilt and tooled binding with flap, the doublures of green paper
Text area 5 ¼. x 2 5/8in. (13.2 x 6.6cm.); folio 7 ¼ x 4 ½in. (18.6 x 11.6cm.)
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