A SMALL ILLUMINATED QURAN, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 22ND SHA'BAN 1249/4TH JANUARY 1834

COPIED BY MUSTAFA, BETTER KNOWN AS MULLA AHMAD-ZADEH ISLAMIVI, A PUPIL OF YAHYA AL-LUTFI OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 22ND SHA'BAN 1249AH/4TH JANUARY 1834 ADAn Arabic and Ottoman Turkish manuscript on pink-colored paper, 298 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in Naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and black, gold discs decorated with blue and red dots between verses, margins ruled in red and gold, catchwords, illuminated devices in outer margins, surah headings written in Thuluth in white on illuminated rectangular panels, one illuminated double-page frontispiece and one illuminated single-page finispiece in colors and gold, Nazm Sajavandi written in verse in Ottoman Turkish at end, some inner margins crudely repaired towards the end, discoloration, some folios creased, brown morocco with stamped central medallions, cornerpieces and outer bands of gilt paper onlay, with flap, rebacked. 12.6 by 9.8 cm.