[QUR'AN]. Fine Ottoman Qur'an, signed by Mustafa known as Husari, student of Yusuf known as Khwaja Sarayi. Ottoman Turkey, dated 1196 AH (1782-83 AD).

An attractive Ottoman Qur'an copied during the reign of Sultan Abdul Hamid I (r. 1774-1789). The concise calligraphy and elegant illumination throughout the volume indicate courtly patronage, likely commissioned by or for a high-ranking member of the Ottoman courts in 1196 of the Hijri calendar.

Single volume, illuminated manuscript on paper, in Arabic, 295 leaves, 167 by 115 mm; single column, 15 lines accomplished black naskh, diacritics in black and some vocalisation in red, surah headings in white against gilt banners with polychrome decorations and ornamentations, opening two pages with richly illuminated and decorated polychrome and gilt borders, executed in the traditional Ottoman style with central textblocks and wide decorated margins extending outwards, catch-words throughout, gilt and decorated marginal devices marking important sections of the text, front and free endpapers of pink-stained gilt speckled paper with illustration of a flower, some light water-staining, a few scattered smudges to ink; housed in early nineteenth-century full leather with flap. covers and flap with borders ruled in blind, doubleurs of decorated paper of an abstract swirling gilt design, very lightly rubbed at extremities, overall a handsome volume.

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