AN OTTOMAN MUHAQQAQ AND NASKH CALLIGRAPHY ALBUM
Ottoman Turkey, dated 1143 AH (1730 AD), signed Abdullah

Arabic manuscript on paper, 4ff. with calligraphy on 6 sides, the opening bifolio featuring the Prophet's saying on the conquest of Constantinople, 2ll. to the page of bold and crisp black ink muhaqqaq script, signed Abdullah and dated 1143 AH (1730 AD), the following folios with 4ll. of black ink naskh script to the page, with further sayings of the Prophet, illuminated gold and polychrome rosettes as markers, inscribed by the same calligrapher, set within gold, black, and white rules, laid on marbled pink paper, in a tooled board binding with yellow endpapers, the spine and edges in deep red calf, the text panel 13.3cm x 20.8cm, the folio 18.8cm x 26.5cm.