AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY SULEYMAN AL-HASHIMI, STUDENT OF ABU BAKR RASHID, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1179 AH/1765-66 AD

AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY SULEYMAN AL-HASHIMI, STUDENT OF ABU BAKR RASHID, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1179 AH/1765-66 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 391 leaves plus 5 fly-leaves, 15 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in gold, black and red, verses separated by segmented gold roundels, surah headings in white cursive against polychrome and gold foliate panels, gold and polychrome verse markes in the margins, f.1b and 2a with a polychrome and gold incipit page, in a brown leather gilt and stamped contemporaneous binding, with flap

16.8 by 11.3cm

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