AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN, 19TH CENTURY

拍品描述

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, comprising 302 folios. Each page with 15 lines of black Naskh script within gold and black rules, with gold roundel verse markers. Surah headings in gilt, with gold and polychrome marginal floral devices indicating the juzʾ divisions. The opening double-page illumination is richly executed in gold and polychrome, framing seven lines of black Naskh script reserved within cloud bands. Bound in brown morocco with flap. 14 by 21 cm.

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