A QURAN SIGNED SHIKH FALAH BIN MOHAMMED ABDUL MOHSEN AL-KHARAFI, 1852-1942 AD

An Arabic manuscript on paper, 337 leaves, each folio with 15 lines of black naskh script, with red roundel verse markers, surah headings in red thuluth script within red cartouches, text within double red rules, opening bifolio with polychrome illuminated headpieces and cartouches, occasional marginal notes. Stamped and tooled red morocco binding with flap. This Quran was written by Sheikh Falah Bin Mohammad Abdul Mohsen Al-Kharafi, born in 1852 in Najd, central region of Saudi Arabia, raised in Kuwait following the Hanbli school in the Islam. In his early days moved with his family to Kuwait and practiced the trade profession to become later as one of the famous business persons, bought several commercial vessels for trade and travel between Kuwait, the Arab Gulf states, India and Persia. 32 by 23 cm.