AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY MEHMED IBN HUSAIN, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1170 AH/1756-57 AD Arabic manuscript on paper, 389 leaves plus 1 fly-leaf, 13 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in black and gold, verses separated by gold and polychrome pointed roundels, surah headings in white riqa against a gold ground within cartouches, gold and polychrome hisb, juz and sajdah markers in the margins, f.1b and f.24a with an illuminated frontispiece, f.389b with a finispiece folio decorated with gold flowers, in dark green gilt binding, with flap text panel: 16.4 by 9.4cm. leaf: 21.5 by 14.3cm.
AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY MEHMED IBN HUSAIN, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1170 AH/1756-57 AD Arabic manuscript on paper, 389 leaves plus 1 fly-leaf, 13 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in black and gold, verses separated by gold and polychrome pointed roundels, surah headings in white riqa against a gold ground within cartouches, gold and polychrome hisb, juz and sajdah markers in the margins, f.1b and f.24a with an illuminated frontispiece, f.389b with a finispiece folio decorated with gold flowers, in dark green gilt binding, with flap text panel: 16.4 by 9.4cm. leaf: 21.5 by 14.3cm.
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