AN OTTOMAN QUR'AN Ottoman Turkey, 19th century  Arabic manuscript on paper, 292ff., plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll., in naskh script, the opening bifolio illuminated in polychromes and gold with floral borders, the text within gold, black, and blue rules, aya markings in gold circles, marginal markings of stellar rosettes in gold and pastel shades, text markings in red, chapter headings in white ink, catchwords, copied by Seyyed Khalil Al-Helmi, in flapped tooled morocco binding, the text panel 12.4cm x 6.8cm and the folio 16.5cm x 11.3cm.