An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Husain bin...
An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Husain bin Muhammad bin Najm al-Din al-Husaini al-Shanbaki, Ottoman Empire, dated AH 1087/AD 1676-77, Arabic manuscript on paper, 257ff., 19ll. to the page written in neat naskh script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and black, gilt discs between verses, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, sura headings written in thuluth script in gold, one illuminated frontispiece, defective, rather browned, later dark green binding, covers richly decorat
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An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Husain bin Muhammad bin Najm al-Din al-Husaini al-Shanbaki, Ottoman Empire, dated AH 1087/AD 1676-77, Arabic manuscript on paper, 257ff., 19ll. to the page written in neat naskh script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and black, gilt discs between verses, inner margins ruled in blue and gold, sura headings written in thuluth script in gold, one illuminated frontispiece, defective, rather browned, later dark green binding, covers richly decorat