AN OTTOMAN QURAN BY OMAR AL-SHAWQI, STUDENT OF ISMAEL
An Arabic manuscript on polished paper, 306 leaves plus 2 flyleaves, 15 lines to the page, written in fine naskh script in black ink, verses separated by small gold roundels pointed in red, illuminated floral marginal devices throughout surah headings written in white thuluth script within gold-ground floral panels. Opening illuminated double-page frontispiece elaborately decorated with interlacing polychrome flowers against a punched gold ground, binding with flap.16 by 10 cm.
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An Arabic manuscript on polished paper, 306 leaves plus 2 flyleaves, 15 lines to the page, written in fine naskh script in black ink, verses separated by small gold roundels pointed in red, illuminated floral marginal devices throughout surah headings written in white thuluth script within gold-ground floral panels. Opening illuminated double-page frontispiece elaborately decorated with interlacing polychrome flowers against a punched gold ground, binding with flap.16 by 10 cm.
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