AN OTTOMAN QUR’AN
Ottoman Turkey, mid-18th century

Arabic manuscript on paper, 300ff. plus one flyleaf, each folio with 15ll. of black ink naskh script to the page, the opening bifolio with gilt illumination, the chapter headings in white ink on burnished gold, diacritic marks in black and red, verse markers in gold, catchwords, set within gold, black, and red rules, starburst marginal marks, the colophon inscribed posthumously in a different hand, green endpapers printed with white palm leaves, in flapped gilt morocco binding, the text panel 10cm x 6cm, the folio 15cm x 10cm.