Lot 111 AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN BY MEHMED SUKRI, TURKEY, 1269 AH/1852 AD
Reference: ART3006839
A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page with 15 lines written in black naskh script within gold and black rules, gold roundel verse markers with Al tajwid in red ink. Surah headings with a gilt decorated panel, gold and polychrome marginal floral motifs indicating the 'Juz and Hizb'. Two opening biofolia heavily with gilt and polychrome decoration framing 7 lines of black naskh script in clouds reserved against a sprinkled gold ground.
Final three pages with Due al-khatm and signed by 'written by al-Faqir Muhammed Shukri in 1269 AH' within a roundel on a gilt and polychrome decorated ground.
In brown morocco binding with flap.
13.5 by 19.5 cm.