£6,000
"AN OTTOMAN QUR’AN
SIGNED BY HAFIZ OSMAN
AH 1083/ 1672 AD"
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Arabic manuscript on paper, 15 lines of black naskh script, gold roundels between verses, text outlined with gold, black and red, finely illuminated marginal rosettes includes juz numerals in the centre white thuluth, sura headings written white thuluth set in illuminated rectangular gold and polychrome cartouches, lavishly illuminated opening bifolio, colophon signed and dated, brown Ottoman leather binding, tooled guilloche borders in gold, inner part in gold checky, with flap"
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