QUR'AN SIGNED GHAYBI BIN 'UMAR, EDIRNE, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED THE END OF MUHARRAM AH 822/FEBRUARY 1419 AD Arabic manuscript on paper, 346ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh , gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in gold thuluth , 'ashr marked in gold and polychrome marginal roundels, juz' marked in gold thuluth in the margins, opening folio with later added carpet page illumination followed by a bifolio with elegant illumination framing 5ll. of naskh in clouds reserved against pink cross-hatched ground, final folio with signed and dated colophon, and with the later owner's name written in bold blue naskh on either side, restorations to opening and closing folios, in later Mamluk-style brown morocco with flap decorated with stamped and gilded geometric lattice Folio 9 ¾ x 6 5/8in. (24.8 x 16.8cm.)
QUR'AN SIGNED GHAYBI BIN 'UMAR, EDIRNE, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED THE END OF MUHARRAM AH 822/FEBRUARY 1419 AD Arabic manuscript on paper, 346ff. plus two flyleaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh , gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in gold thuluth , 'ashr marked in gold and polychrome marginal roundels, juz' marked in gold thuluth in the margins, opening folio with later added carpet page illumination followed by a bifolio with elegant illumination framing 5ll. of naskh in clouds reserved against pink cross-hatched ground, final folio with signed and dated colophon, and with the later owner's name written in bold blue naskh on either side, restorations to opening and closing folios, in later Mamluk-style brown morocco with flap decorated with stamped and gilded geometric lattice Folio 9 ¾ x 6 5/8in. (24.8 x 16.8cm.)
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