A MAMLUK QURAN, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 14TH CENTURY A MAMLUK QURAN, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 14TH CENTURY A MAMLUK QURAN, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 14TH CENTURY A MAMLUK QURAN, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 14TH CENTURY A MAMLUK QURAN, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 14TH CENTURY A MAMLUK QURAN, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 14TH CENTURY A MAMLUK QURAN, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 14TH CENTURY A MAMLUK QURAN, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 14TH CENTURY A MAMLUK QURAN, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 14TH CENTURY

A MAMLUK QURAN, EGYPT OR SYRIA, 14TH CENTURY

Reference: ART3004255

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on paper, 260 leaves, each folio with 13 lines of elegant black muhaqqaq script, diacritics and vowels in red, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black with polychrome dots, large gilt and polychrome floral marginal 'juz and hizb' medallions. Notes of the names of the surahs, rab'a hizb, nisf hizb, rab'a wa nisf hizb and sajda marked in thulth script outlined in black in the margins. The Basmallah of surah headings in gold thuluth outlined in black. Opening bifolio with double carpet page with geometric panels followed by two pages fully illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 5 lines of black muhaqqaq script in clouds reserved against a sprinkled gilt ground. The last three pages similarly decorated.
In brown morocco binding decorated with a central medallion and border.
24 by 31 cm.