Lot 21 AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN, WRITTEN BY THE SCRIBE WALI AL-HAMEDI, STUDENT OF HAFIZ MUSTAFA VEHBI, DATED 1334 AH/1915 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 303 leaves, each folio with 15 lines of elegant black naskh 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', occasional marginal commentaries, text within gold and polychrome rules. Surah headings in white thuluth script on an illuminated ground, two opening bifolia fully illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 7 lines of black naskh script in clouds reserved against a sprinkled gilt ground. The last page with a prayer for completion of the recitation of the Quran (Dua'a al-khatm) and signed 'written by el-Sayyid al-Hajj Wali al-Hamedi, student of Mustafa Vehbi and dated 13334AH'.
Housed in a modern gilt Morocco binding.
A late Ottoman Empire Quran dedicated as a Waqf or as a religious endowment.
12 by 18.5 cm.