AN OTTOMAN QURAN, TURKEY, 18TH-19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on beige paper, calligraphed in beautiful and regular "naskh" in black ink 292 leaves plus 2 fly leaves on 15 lines per page, opening with a beautiful double frontispiece illuminated with a fine floral decoration, surah headings written in gold thuluth script within on background golden, the verses separated by illuminated pastilles and the marginal illuminations of in the form of florets.
Binding with brown morocco decorated with golden palmettes.
15 by 9.5 cm.
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Arabic manuscript on beige paper, calligraphed in beautiful and regular "naskh" in black ink 292 leaves plus 2 fly leaves on 15 lines per page, opening with a beautiful double frontispiece illuminated with a fine floral decoration, surah headings written in gold thuluth script within on background golden, the verses separated by illuminated pastilles and the marginal illuminations of in the form of florets.
Binding with brown morocco decorated with golden palmettes.
15 by 9.5 cm.
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