AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY MIR HAFIZ IBRAHIM, KNOWN AS AL-'AFIF, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1245 AH/1829-30 AD Arabic manuscript on light green paper, 304 leaves plus 4 fly-leaves, 15 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in gold, black and red, verses separated by gold and polychrome roundels, surah headings in white riqa’ against a gold ground within cartouches, gold and polychrome verse markes in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, f.303b with the colophon written against a gold, red and blue ground, f.304a decorated with a bunch of flowers, in green gilt leather binding, with flap and fitted box text panel: 9.3 by 5.7cm. leaf: 14.2 by 9.3cm.
AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY MIR HAFIZ IBRAHIM, KNOWN AS AL-'AFIF, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1245 AH/1829-30 AD Arabic manuscript on light green paper, 304 leaves plus 4 fly-leaves, 15 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in gold, black and red, verses separated by gold and polychrome roundels, surah headings in white riqa’ against a gold ground within cartouches, gold and polychrome verse markes in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, f.303b with the colophon written against a gold, red and blue ground, f.304a decorated with a bunch of flowers, in green gilt leather binding, with flap and fitted box text panel: 9.3 by 5.7cm. leaf: 14.2 by 9.3cm.
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