AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN, 19TH CENTURY

拍品描述

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, comprising 360 folios. Each page with 15 lines of black Naskh script within gold and black rules, with gold roundel verse markers outlined in black and highlighted with polychrome dots. Surah headings on gilt grounds, with occasional marginal commentary notes. The opening two bifolia are richly illuminated in gold and polychrome, framing seven lines of black Naskh script reserved within cloud bands against a gold-sprinkled ground. At the end of the Quran are 27 pages containing du'a and hadiths relating to the recitation of the Quran. Bound in brown morocco decorated with gilt-painted floral motifs. 11 by 16 cm.

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