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QUR'AN, ILLUMINATED ARABIC MANUSCRIPT ON CREAM PAPER
[Ottoman Turkey, copied by Husayn al-Hosni b. Ahmad al-Adranawi, dated AH 1280/1863-4 AD]160 x 102mm., (FOLIOS), COMPLETE, catchwords in lower inner margins, 15 lines of black naskh, gold aya markers, sura headings with white thuluth over gold ground and with blue border, all within blue and gold rules, marginal juz' markers in blue, gold and red in a variety of foliate forms, ff.1v. and 2r. with fine double-page opening illumination in typical late-Ottoman style, red morocco binding with flap, with tooled and gilded decoration, slightly scuffed, spine splitting slightly, contemporary box
[Ottoman Turkey, copied by Husayn al-Hosni b. Ahmad al-Adranawi, dated AH 1280/1863-4 AD]160 x 102mm., (FOLIOS), COMPLETE, catchwords in lower inner margins, 15 lines of black naskh, gold aya markers, sura headings with white thuluth over gold ground and with blue border, all within blue and gold rules, marginal juz' markers in blue, gold and red in a variety of foliate forms, ff.1v. and 2r. with fine double-page opening illumination in typical late-Ottoman style, red morocco binding with flap, with tooled and gilded decoration, slightly scuffed, spine splitting slightly, contemporary box