£1,386
Rare Books, Manuscripts, Maps & Photographs | 725
Auction: 8 February 2023 at 10:00 GMT
Arabic manuscript on laid paper (watermarks including triple crescent, probably Turkish), approx. 650 loose leaves, sudani script, mainly 14 lines to the page, rectos and versos, catchwords, main text in brown ink, surah-headings and tashkil in red, trefoil ayah-markings in red ink overpainted with yellow, first page (Fatihah) decorated with geometric panel and three overlapping roundels, large geometric panels in red and yellow to recto of first leaf of Surat al-Baqarah and to both sides of leaves preceding Surat al-A'raf, Surat Maryam and Surat Dawud, decorative roundels and penwork lozenges to margins throughout, housed in a contemporary leather carry-case with envelope flap