Lot 15 AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN, WRITTEN BY THE SCRIBE MEHMED TAWFIQ BIN MEHMED SULH EFFENDI, TURKEY AND DATED 1287 AH/1870 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 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', text within gold and polychrome rules. Surah headings in white naskh script on 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 al-Fakir Mehmed Tawfiq bin Mehmed Sulh effendi and dated 1287 AH'.
In brown morocco binding decorated with gold painted central medallion and border.
10.5 by 15 cm.