AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY MEHMED AL-ATIF HAFIZ, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1218 AH/1803-04 AD Arabic manuscript on paper, 412 leaves plus 5 fly-leaves, 17 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in black and gold, verses separated by pointed gold roundels, surah headings in while riqa against a gold ground within cartouches, gold juz markers in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, f.411b and f.412a with a finispiece bifolium with the colophon against a gold ground and a bunch of flowers on the left, in brown gilt and stamped binding, with flap text panel: 13.2 by 4.5cm. leaf: 17 by 8.8cm.
AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY MEHMED AL-ATIF HAFIZ, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1218 AH/1803-04 AD Arabic manuscript on paper, 412 leaves plus 5 fly-leaves, 17 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in black and gold, verses separated by pointed gold roundels, surah headings in while riqa against a gold ground within cartouches, gold juz markers in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, f.411b and f.412a with a finispiece bifolium with the colophon against a gold ground and a bunch of flowers on the left, in brown gilt and stamped binding, with flap text panel: 13.2 by 4.5cm. leaf: 17 by 8.8cm.
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