THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MUSTAFA AL-HALIMI, THE ILLUMINATION SIGNED HAJJI HAFIZ MUHAMMAD NURI EFENDI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1214 / 1799-1800 AD

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THE CALLIGRAPHY SIGNED MUSTAFA AL-HALIMI, THE ILLUMINATION SIGNED HAJJI HAFIZ MUHAMMAD NURI EFENDI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED AH 1214 / 1799-1800 AD
Arabic manuscript on burnished paper, 329ff. plus three flyleaves, each folio with 15ll. of fine black naskh, tajwid in red, varied elaborate gold pricked rosette verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth against gold cartouches within coloured frames, in broad gold borders, the margins plain with occasional illuminated medallions or short du'as, the opening bifolio with 6ll. black naskh set within margins richly illuminated in gold and polychrome, the subsequent bifolio with gold stencilled margins, the colophon signed and dated, closing with du'a al-khatm, gold stencilled illumination to final folio, in contemporaneous fine-tooled mahogany morocco with flap, the doublures red leather with trellis design containing quatrefoil clusters, in contemporaneous gilt-tooled slip case
Text panel 4 ¾ x 2 7/8in. (11.9 x 7.3cm.); folio 6 7⁄8 x 4 ¼in. (17.4 x 10.9cm.)

Provenance

Anon. sale, Sotheby’s London, 14th December 1987, lot 240
A Private Collection Donated to Benefit Oxford University, Christie's London, 26 April 2012, lot 51

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Lot Essay

Mustafa al-Halimi is recorded as a master calligrapher who granted an ijaza or license to his student 'Ali Ra'if Efendi. This is confirmed by an ijaza in the Library of Congress which is dated AH 1206 / 1791-92 AD (inv.1-88-154.129). An anthology of Ottoman poetry offered at Sotheby's London, 6 October 2010, lot 49, had a colophon confirming that Mustafa al-Halimi was the teacher of the scribe.

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