Lot Essay
Another Qur'an in the hand of Ibrahim Khulusi was sold in these Room, 23 April 2015, lot 188.
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SIGNED IBRAHIM KHULUSI BIN AHMAD RASHID BERBERZADE STUDENT OF KHALIL SHUKRI AL-BURSAWI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1266/1849-1850 AD
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QUR'AN
SIGNED IBRAHIM KHULUSI BIN AHMAD RASHID BERBERZADE STUDENT OF KHALIL SHUKRI AL-BURSAWI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1266/1849-1850 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 301ff. plus five fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh, tajwid in red, within gold, black and red rules, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, catchwords, sura headings marked by gold and polychrome illuminated panels, gold and polychrome marginal motifs, opening bifolio heavily gilt with rococo-style decoration framing 8ll. of naskh in clouds reserved against a pricked gold ground, colophon signed and dated within gold and polychrome illuminated border, followed by an Arabic prayer, in brown morocco with flap decorated with stamped gilt painted designs, purple paper doublures
Text panel 4 ¾ x 2 7/8in. (12 x 7.3cm.); folio 7 ¼ x 4 ½in. (18.3 x 11.3cm.)
SIGNED IBRAHIM KHULUSI BIN AHMAD RASHID BERBERZADE STUDENT OF KHALIL SHUKRI AL-BURSAWI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1266/1849-1850 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 301ff. plus five fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh, tajwid in red, within gold, black and red rules, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, catchwords, sura headings marked by gold and polychrome illuminated panels, gold and polychrome marginal motifs, opening bifolio heavily gilt with rococo-style decoration framing 8ll. of naskh in clouds reserved against a pricked gold ground, colophon signed and dated within gold and polychrome illuminated border, followed by an Arabic prayer, in brown morocco with flap decorated with stamped gilt painted designs, purple paper doublures
Text panel 4 ¾ x 2 7/8in. (12 x 7.3cm.); folio 7 ¼ x 4 ½in. (18.3 x 11.3cm.)
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This Lot is Withdrawn.
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