Lot A LARGE ILLUMINATED QURAN, CENTRAL ASIA, WRITTEN BY MUHAMMED AMIN SUKRI AND DATED 1288AH/ 1871AD

A complete Quran manuscript in Arabic on paper, comprising 308 folios with two fly-leaves. Each page is arranged in 15 lines: the opening, middle, and final lines are executed in bold, elegant red thuluth script, while the remaining text is set in black naskh, arranged in two blocks of six lines each. The writing is framed within ruled gilt borders outlined in black and enlivened by red and gold floral scrolls. Verse markers appear as gold roundels outlined in black and punctuated with polychrome dots. Diacritical marks and tajwid signs are rendered in red. Surah headings are written in white naskh on gilt ground panels. Nearly every page is annotated in the margins with ʿashr (“ten”), or with hizb and sajdah markers, set within gilt and polychrome floral motifs. Select pages are further distinguished by additional top and bottom lines in large gilt thuluth script, heightening their visual rhythm and ceremonial emphasis. Folio 1a opens with a richly illuminated composition featuring part of verse 39 of Surat al-Kahf in gilt tughra-inspired script outlined in black, above verse 9 of Surat al-Ḥujurat in white thuluth on a gilt ground. Folios 1b and 2a are lavishly ornamented with dense gilt and polychrome floral decoration framing six lines of text per page. The final three folios contain the Duʿā’ al-Khatm, concluding the Quran, signed by “al-faqir al-Sayyid Muhammad Amin al-Sukri” and dated to the afternoon of Sunday, 1288 AH, noted as the 87th copy. Housed in a deep brown leather binding with flap. 37 × 25 cm.