ISLAMIC ART HAMMER AUCTION 18 NOVEMBER 2025 | Nov 18, 2025
Lot 18
AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN, WRITTEN BY THE SCRIBE AHMED HELMI, STUDENT OF ASAYLI AL-MASRI, DATED 1227 AH/1812 AD AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN, WRITTEN BY THE SCRIBE AHMED HELMI, STUDENT OF ASAYLI AL-MASRI, DATED 1227 AH/1812 AD AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN, WRITTEN BY THE SCRIBE AHMED HELMI, STUDENT OF ASAYLI AL-MASRI, DATED 1227 AH/1812 AD AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN, WRITTEN BY THE SCRIBE AHMED HELMI, STUDENT OF ASAYLI AL-MASRI, DATED 1227 AH/1812 AD AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN, WRITTEN BY THE SCRIBE AHMED HELMI, STUDENT OF ASAYLI AL-MASRI, DATED 1227 AH/1812 AD

Lot 18 AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN, WRITTEN BY THE SCRIBE AHMED HELMI, STUDENT OF ASAYLI AL-MASRI, DATED 1227 AH/1812 AD

Reference: ART3007107

Arabic manuscript on paper, 363 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' medallions, text within gold and polychrome rules. Surah headings in white thuluth script on cartouches with polychrome floral 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 signed 'written by al-Fakir Ahmed Helmi, student of Asayli al-Masri, and dated 1227 AH'.
In brown morocco binding with flap.
12 by 17.5 cm.

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