AN OTTOMAN QURAN, TURKEY, DATED 961 AH/1553-54 AD

Arabic manuscript on light brown paper, 275 leaves, 15 lines of black naskh, within gold and polychrome rules, gold and polychrome verse markers, tajwid in red, surah headings in white thuluth on gold and red illuminated panels, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated frontispiece firming 7 lines of naskh, final folio with dated colophon, some later owners’ notes in order and on final folio, in dark brown morocco with gilt lobed medallion, green marbled paper doublures. Text: 11.5 by 7 cm. Folio: 11.5 by 17 cm.