A LARGE OTTOMAN QURAN, TURKEY, CIRCA 16TH CENTURY

An Arabic manuscript on paper with 288 leaves and two flyleaves, with 14 lines to each page in bold black naskh script with notations in red within double gold and blue borders.
A complete Quran, surah headings in white thuluth within gold and polychrome cartouches, gold roundel verse markers surrounded by blue border, gold marginal medallions marking ‘khams and ‘ashr’.
Opening bifolium with dense gold and polychrome illumination with arabesque over gold, polychrome and marginal palmettes extending from the sides, brown morocco with flap.
34 by 24 cm.