AN OTTOMAN QURAN COPIED BY YAQUT RAQM'KHAN MUHAMMAD
An Arabic manuscript on paper, 726 leaves plus 2 flyleaves, 9 lines to the page, written in fine naskh script in black ink, verses separated by small gold roundels pointed in red.
Additional Turkish writings on some pages. 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, morocco binding with gilt-stamped medallion with flap.
16.5 by 10 cm.
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An Arabic manuscript on paper, 726 leaves plus 2 flyleaves, 9 lines to the page, written in fine naskh script in black ink, verses separated by small gold roundels pointed in red.
Additional Turkish writings on some pages. 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, morocco binding with gilt-stamped medallion with flap.
16.5 by 10 cm.
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