AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN, COPIED BY IBRAHIM AL-SHEVKI KNOWN AS HAFIZ AL-QUR'AN, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1223 AH/1808 AD Arabic manuscript on paper, 306 leaves including one blank, 15 lines per page written in neat naskh script in black ink, verses separated by gold florets decorated with red and blue dots, sura headings written in white thulth on gold illuminated panels, further text divisions marked in margins with illuminated floral devices, opening double page fully illuminated in colours and gold with a cusped border band of stippled gold, final page with central roundel containing colophon surrounded by floral illumination in colours and gold, contemporary gilt-stamped brown leather binding. red leather doublures decorated with gold trellis pattern 16.3 by 10.5cmCondition ReportGenerally in good condition. Small section of five folios in Sura Yasin thumbed, smudged and with abrasion of paper, Few defects at edge of opening pages. Lower cover loose. As viewed. "
AN ILLUMINATED QUR'AN, COPIED BY IBRAHIM AL-SHEVKI KNOWN AS HAFIZ AL-QUR'AN, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1223 AH/1808 AD Arabic manuscript on paper, 306 leaves including one blank, 15 lines per page written in neat naskh script in black ink, verses separated by gold florets decorated with red and blue dots, sura headings written in white thulth on gold illuminated panels, further text divisions marked in margins with illuminated floral devices, opening double page fully illuminated in colours and gold with a cusped border band of stippled gold, final page with central roundel containing colophon surrounded by floral illumination in colours and gold, contemporary gilt-stamped brown leather binding. red leather doublures decorated with gold trellis pattern 16.3 by 10.5cmCondition ReportGenerally in good condition. Small section of five folios in Sura Yasin thumbed, smudged and with abrasion of paper, Few defects at edge of opening pages. Lower cover loose. As viewed. "
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