AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN BY ALI ALWAHBI (ALVAHBI), TURKEY, 18TH CENTURY

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 302 leaves with 2 fly-leaves, each page with 15 lines written in black naskh script, tajwid in red within gold and black rules, gold roundel verse markers. Surah headings on a gilt ground within a decorated panel, gold and polychrome marginal floral motifs indicating the "Juz". Two opening folio heavily with gilt and polychrome decoration framing 7ll. of black naskh script in clouds reserved against a pricked gold ground. Final folio signed by "written by Ali alvahbi bin Hussain Al-salwa student of Mustafa al-Sudqi Al-salwa on a gilt and polychrome decorated ground.
In brown morocco binding with flap decorated with gold painted central medallion.
11.5 by 16 cm.