A MINIATURE QUR'AN Ottoman Turkey, 19th century Arabic...
A MINIATURE QUR'AN
Ottoman Turkey, 19th century
Arabic manuscript on paper, 502ff., plus six fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll., of black naskh script, sura headings in gold, within black and gold ruling, red and gold text markings, catchwords, marginal juz’ markings in gold, other marginal markings in gold and black, the opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination, with emerald green waxed paper doublures, in tooled, punched, and gilt flapped red calf binding with a trellis pattern, traces of gilding on ribs, re-spined, the text panel 7cm x 4.2cm and the folio 10cm x 7cm.
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A MINIATURE QUR'AN
Ottoman Turkey, 19th century
Arabic manuscript on paper, 502ff., plus six fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll., of black naskh script, sura headings in gold, within black and gold ruling, red and gold text markings, catchwords, marginal juz’ markings in gold, other marginal markings in gold and black, the opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination, with emerald green waxed paper doublures, in tooled, punched, and gilt flapped red calf binding with a trellis pattern, traces of gilding on ribs, re-spined, the text panel 7cm x 4.2cm and the folio 10cm x 7cm.
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