AN OTTOMAN QURAN SIGNED DARWISH IBRAHIM TAHIR BIN MUSTAFA, STUDENT OF MAWLANA MUHAMMAD RASIM, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 1177 AH/1763-64 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 384 leaves plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 12 lines, written in black naskh script, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, surah headings in white thuluth on gold ground within illuminated cartouches, text within red and black-ruled gold frames, gold and polychrome illuminated marginal markers, catchwords, two opening pages with text panels of 6 lines reserved in clouds with gold and blue decoration.
Ruled in gold and polychrome illuminated margins, colophon signed and dated, in contemporaneous brown morocco with flap, cream paper doublers.
Text panel: 13.5 by 7.8 cm.
18.2 by 11.7 cm.