AN OTTOMAN QUR'AN
Ottoman Turkey, dated 1202 AH (1787), signed Isma’il Qara Khan Zad

AN OTTOMAN QUR'AN
Ottoman Turkey, dated 1202 AH (1787), signed Isma’il Qara Khan Zad

Arabic manuscript on paper, 302ff., each folio with 15ll. of black ink naskh script, red diacritic marks, gold verse markers, chapter headings in white on burnished gold cartouches, some catchwords, within gold and black rules, red marginal notes, a number of follow-up prayers, final phrases in Turkish, in an oxblood stamped flapped morocco leather binding, the text panel 9.5cm x 5.5cm, the folio 13.5cm x 9.2cm.

Dimensions: the text panel 9.5cm x 5.5cm, the folio 13.5cm x 9.2cm