A SINGLE FOLIO FROM AN OTTOMAN MANUSCRIPT OF THE QUR’AN
TURKEY, 18th CENTURY
Estimate: £500 - £700
Auction: Islamic Art | Lots 1 to 66 | 12 June at 10am
Description
Ottoman Turkish manuscript on paper, with 10 lines to the page in elegant black nashki and 3 lines in large thuluth script with a sura heading in gold script on a red panel, gilt rosette markers, blue drop-shaped marginal devices, mounted with old description label
Dimensions
36.2cm x 26.5cm (14 ¼in x 10 3/8in)
Footnote
Text:
sura LXIX, Al-Haqqaq, verse 40 to sura LXXI, Nuh, part of verse 1.