AN ILLUMINATED QURAN COPIED BY ISMA'IL BIN 'UMAR QALBAWI, OTTOMAN PROVINCIAL, DATED 1171 AH/1757-58 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 307 leaves, 15 lines to the page written in neat naskh script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in red and black ink, gold roundels between verses, inner margins ruled in two shades of gold and red, catchwords, surah headings written in thuluth in white within illuminated rectangular panels, one illuminated double-page frontispiece in colors and gold, occasional illuminated devices in wide outer margins, contemporary brown morocco, covers decorated with panels incorporating a diaper pattern in gold, with flap of green morocco with similar decoration, upper cover detached, doublures and end-leaves of green paper embossed with an interwining vegetal motif, gilt edges. 13.5 by 9.5 cm.