Lot Essay
The colophon states this was the scribe's twenty-fifth completed Qur'an.
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THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED ‘ABD AL-QADIR AL-WAHBI, A STUDENT OF MUHAMMAD BULEWI, THE ILLUMINATION SIGNED HUSAYN HUSNI AL-[...]TA'I, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED SHA’BAN AH 1280/ MARCH 1864 AD
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THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED ‘ABD AL-QADIR AL-WAHBI, A STUDENT OF MUHAMMAD BULEWI, THE ILLUMINATION SIGNED HUSAYN HUSNI AL-[...]TA'I, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED SHA’BAN AH 1280/ MARCH 1864 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 618ff. plus three flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. of black Ottoman naskh, gold roundel verse markers, text panels ruled in gold, black and red, catchwords, marginal rosettes of various forms, sura headings in white and pink thuluth within gold-ground cartouches with polychrome illuminations, opening bifolio heavily gilt with rococo-style decoration framing 7ll. of naskh in clouds reserved against gold ground, colophon signed and dated within illuminated borders, in brown morocco with flap, decorated with gilt painted designs, pink star-patterned doublures
Text panel 3 7/8 x 2 1/8in. (10.1 x 5.3cm.); folio 7 1/8 x 4 ¼in. (18.2 x 11cm.)
THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED ‘ABD AL-QADIR AL-WAHBI, A STUDENT OF MUHAMMAD BULEWI, THE ILLUMINATION SIGNED HUSAYN HUSNI AL-[...]TA'I, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED SHA’BAN AH 1280/ MARCH 1864 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 618ff. plus three flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. of black Ottoman naskh, gold roundel verse markers, text panels ruled in gold, black and red, catchwords, marginal rosettes of various forms, sura headings in white and pink thuluth within gold-ground cartouches with polychrome illuminations, opening bifolio heavily gilt with rococo-style decoration framing 7ll. of naskh in clouds reserved against gold ground, colophon signed and dated within illuminated borders, in brown morocco with flap, decorated with gilt painted designs, pink star-patterned doublures
Text panel 3 7/8 x 2 1/8in. (10.1 x 5.3cm.); folio 7 1/8 x 4 ¼in. (18.2 x 11cm.)
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