Lot 197 AN ILLUMINATED OTTTOMAN QURAN, DATED 980 AH/1572 AD
Reference: ART3006850
A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 389 leaves with 2 fly-leaves, each page with 12 lines, written in black elegant naskh script within gold and blue rules, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black with polychrome dots. Surah headings in red thuluth script with gold and blue decoration, each page with gold and blue marginal roundels. Two opening biofolia with gold and polychrome decoration framing 6 lines of black naskh in clouds reserved against a gilt ground.
The last page signed in red ink with "written in the last days of Muharram in 980 AH''.
In brown morocco binding with flap with gilt floral decoration.
9.5 by 147 cm.