AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN SIGNED PIR BIN AHMAD BIN SULAYMAN, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED SHA'BAN 913 AH/1507-1508 AD

Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 425ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 10ll. written in black naskh script, tajwid in red ink , gold roundel verse markers, interlinear Ottoman Turkish translations, within gold and black rules, catchwords, sura headings in gold thuluth script, occasional marginal notes and commentaries. Two opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination framing 6ll. of naskh in clouds reserved against a gold-hatched ground, colophon signed and dated, followed by a prayer, in later brown morocco with stamped central lobed cartouche, some areas of restoration.
Text panel (20.4 by 12.1cm.); folio (24.6 by 16.7 cm.)