ID 828598 
Lot 3  | QUR'AN
Estimate value
£ 20 000 – 30 000 
OTTOMAN TURKEY, MID 16TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on burnished paper, 258ff. with six flyleaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh within gold and black rules, with gold rosette verse markers, gold script in margins marking 'ashr, sura headings in gold, opening bifolio with blue and gold illumination framing 5ll. of text, in contemporaneous black leather binding with tooled medallion and spandrels and traces of gilding, doublures covered with gold speckled yellow paper
Text panel 9 1/8 x 6in. (23.2 x 15.2cm.); folio 13 3/4 x 10 1/8in. x (34.5 x 25.5cm.)
Provenance
Michel Abemayor (1912-1975), New York
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| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey | 
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| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts | 
| Place of origin: | Asia, Ottoman Empire, Turkey | 
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| Auction house category: | Letters, documents and manuscripts | 
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