A LARGE QUR'AN Ottoman Provinces, possibly Najd, Saudi...
A LARGE QUR'AN
Ottoman Provinces, possibly Najd, Saudi Arabia, dated 1265 AH (1849)
Arabic manuscript on cream white paper, 262ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with red roundel verse markers, sura headings in red naskh script within rectangular cartouches ruled in red ink, text within double red rules, with marginal notes, catchwords, tracery and sketches, opaque pigment-painted opening bifolio with polychrome decoration encasing the first two qur'anic suras, sura al-fatiha and sura al-baqara, the decoration consisting of polilobed headpieces with red, green, orange and yellow painted rosettes in the centre, lattice work below them and a three-sided frame of stylised orange cusped palmettes against a dark green ground, dated 1265, produced in Najd, and signed by the calligrapher 'Uthman bin 'Abd al-Fariz bin Souveilam al-'Ireni al-Najdi al-Hanbali, in tooled dark red morocco ornate with central cusped medallions with vegetal tendrils and arabesques, the text panel 26cm x 14.5cm and the folio 31.8cm x 20cm.
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A LARGE QUR'AN
Ottoman Provinces, possibly Najd, Saudi Arabia, dated 1265 AH (1849)
Arabic manuscript on cream white paper, 262ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with red roundel verse markers, sura headings in red naskh script within rectangular cartouches ruled in red ink, text within double red rules, with marginal notes, catchwords, tracery and sketches, opaque pigment-painted opening bifolio with polychrome decoration encasing the first two qur'anic suras, sura al-fatiha and sura al-baqara, the decoration consisting of polilobed headpieces with red, green, orange and yellow painted rosettes in the centre, lattice work below them and a three-sided frame of stylised orange cusped palmettes against a dark green ground, dated 1265, produced in Najd, and signed by the calligrapher 'Uthman bin 'Abd al-Fariz bin Souveilam al-'Ireni al-Najdi al-Hanbali, in tooled dark red morocco ornate with central cusped medallions with vegetal tendrils and arabesques, the text panel 26cm x 14.5cm and the folio 31.8cm x 20cm.
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