AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY SULEYMAN, STUDENT OF SELANIKI, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, CIRCA 1600 Arabic manuscript on paper, 427 leaves plus 4 fly-leaves, 13 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in black and gold, verses separated by gold and polychrome rosettes, surah headings in gold riqa outlined in black against a blue foliated ground within cartouches, hisb, nisb, ‘ashr and sajdahs with gold markers in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, f.427b with a gold finispiece roundel, in brown gilt and stamped leather binding, with flap text panel: 7.8 by 4.5cm. leaf: 11.6 by 7.8cm.
AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY SULEYMAN, STUDENT OF SELANIKI, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, CIRCA 1600 Arabic manuscript on paper, 427 leaves plus 4 fly-leaves, 13 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in black and gold, verses separated by gold and polychrome rosettes, surah headings in gold riqa outlined in black against a blue foliated ground within cartouches, hisb, nisb, ‘ashr and sajdahs with gold markers in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, f.427b with a gold finispiece roundel, in brown gilt and stamped leather binding, with flap text panel: 7.8 by 4.5cm. leaf: 11.6 by 7.8cm.
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