A QUR'AN SECTION (FROM SURA 2 TO 86)
Ottoman Turkey, 18th - early 19th century

Arabic manuscript on paper, 340ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of fine naskh script in black ink, with red diacritic marks, verses marked with gold roundels, sura headings in white ink on burnished gold cartouches, juz' markings in gold starbursts, catchwords, in gold and black rules, in altered brown tooled and gilt calf binding, the text panel 10.4cm x 6cm, the folio 15.6cm x 10cm.