A PRINT COPY OF QUR'AN Arabic printed book on paper, 330 lea...

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£400 - £500

A PRINT COPY OF QUR'AN
Arabic printed book on paper, 330 leaves, plus 2 fly-leave, 15 lines to the page of Naskh written in black ink, ruled in gold, black and red, verses separated by gold rosettes with red dots, sura headings written in Thuluth on gold illuminated panels, marginal rosette illuminations, the opening bifolio heavily illuminated in gold and polychromes, colophon with calligrapher’s name and date, a stamp with an Matbaa-I Amira inscription in Ottoman tughra style , comtemporaneous leather gilt-stamped binding, with a flap, some damage on the flap