An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Mustafa al-Shukri Kutahi, a pupil of Muhammad al-Hamdi, better known as Kurdachi-zadeh, with an illuminated hilyeh of the attributes of the Prophet Muhammad, Ottoman Turkey, probably Kutahya, dated AH 1252/AD 1836-37

Arabic manuscript on paper, 151 leaves, 23 lines to the page written in minute naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and black, gilt roundels between verses, inner margins ruled in red and gold, catchwords, illuminated devices in wide outer margins, sura headings written diagonally in thuluth script in white within illuminated rectangular panels, last folio with an illuminated hilyeh of the Prophet Muhammad, one illuminated frontispiece in colours and gold, edges frayed, browned, later brown morocco, rebacked, with flap, slightly worn
148 x 95 mm.