Lot 29 AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN BY HAFIZ AHMED HULUSI, TURKEY, 1284 AH/1867 AD
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 outlined in polychrome dots, catchwords in red. Surah headings in white thuluth script on a gilt ground within a 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 page with Due al-khatm and signed by 'written by al-Faqir Hafiz Ahmed hulusi, student of Ahmed Sevki in 1284 AH/1867 AD' within a Mihrab shaped cartouche on a gilt and polychrome decorated ground.
In brown morocco binding with flap.
11 by 17 cm.