Lot n° 60
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Handwritten Koran, Ottoman Empire, signed and dated 1725 - Lot 60
Handwritten Koran, Ottoman Empire, signed and dated 1725
Manuscript on paper with 15 lines of text per page in naskhi Arabic in black ink, some characters in red ink. Double-frontispiece in unwân illuminated in gold and polychrome, the text in reserve on a gold background, framed by two titled cartouches and encircled by a frieze of lambrequins trimmed with scrolls. Sura titles inscribed in white letters in gold-background cartouches and verses separated by gold discs. A few floral medallions in the margins, illuminated in gold and polychrome, mark the divisions of the text. At the end of the manuscript, colophon giving the name of the copyist 'Alî ibn Muhammad al-Haddadî and the year of 1138 H / 1725. Watermarks on many pages.
Flap binding in garnet-red morocco with stamped and gilded decoration of a poly-lobed mandorla with double-appendices and flanked by four spandrels, the whole trimmed with foliage scrolls integrating tchi clouds. In a garnet-red leather case with polychrome woven silk braid.
Dim. binding: 18 x 12.3 cm ;
case size: 18.7 x 12.5 cm
(Some folios detached from binding, folds, small tears, stains, freckles, wetness, some marginal notes written in red ink, restoration of folios and case damaged, worn binding with detached flap).
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