EIGHT OTTOMAN QUR`AN JUZ`

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Lot 8 | EIGHT OTTOMAN QUR'AN JUZ'
EIGHT OTTOMAN QUR'AN JUZ'

SIGNED HABIB AL-DAIMI STUDENT OF HASAN AL-RUSHDI, OTTOMAN EMPIRE, DATED AH 1187/1773-74 AD

Comprising juz' I, II, III, XII, XXIV, XXV, XXIX and XXX each separately bound, Arabic manuscript on paper, each juz' comprising between 20 and 23ff., with 9ll. of black naskh, within gold, blue and red rules, gold rosette verse markers, catchwords, sura headings in gold illuminated panels, opening bifolio of each juz' with gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, one volume with a colophon signed and dated, each juz' in contemporaneous red leather binding with tooled and gilt medallion

Text panel 7 1/8 x 4in. (18 x 10.1cm.); folio 9 1/4 x 5 7/8in. (23.4 x 14.7cm.)





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Michel Abemayor (1912-1975), New York



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