Lot 157 A LARGE ILLUMINATED QURAN, COPIED BY MUHAMMED BIN SALIH, EAST CAUCASUS DAGESTAN AND DATED 1201 AH/1786-1787 AD
Reference: ART3007130
Arabic manuscript on paper, 466 leaves, with 6 modern fly-leaves, each page with 12 lines, written in bold black Naskh script, sura headings in white reserved against gold ground on illuminated cartouches, with gold rosette verse markers, text within gold and polychrome frame, numerous colourfully illuminated marginal medallions, Two opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated headpieces and margins, the headpieces with signature, date and indicating that this is the 25th Quran copied by the scribe, the last 6ff. a later replacement, in restored tooled morocco with flap. 34 by 22 cm.