Leaf from Ottoman Qu'ran Koran early C19th Surah XVIII, (al-Kahf, The Cave ), vv. 75 84 (recto) and 85 96 (verso).

Qu'ran [Koran]

Verlag: Turkey [Anatolian], 1825

Beschreibung

Surah XVIII, (al-Kahf, The Cave ), vv. 75 84 (recto) and 85 96 (verso). These leaves provide us with no information regarding a precise date, nor the calligrapher s identity or the place where this Koran was copied and for whom. Nevertheless, we can reasonably state that the manuscript these leaves once belonged to is of Turkish (perhaps Anatolian) provenance, and to be dated in all likelihood at the beginning of the 19th century (merely on stylistic and comparative grounds). Leaf size: mm.207x 130; text panel measurements: mm.145 x82; Arabic handwritten text in a serifed, clear-cut late Ottoman nash; style in black ink, with liturgical and critical abbreviations marked in red between textlines and on both inner and outer margins; text arranged on a 15-line single column. Single qur'anic verses (ar.ayat) are separated by golden roundels (ar.samsa), while the text panel is framed by a simple, rather thick gadval-frame, consisting of an innermost thin gold perimetral line, surrounded by a much thicker golden band, in turn outlined by a white external fillet, finally highlighted by one outermost thin red line. A stylised multicoloured flower has been drawn for embellishment on the outer upper margin of Leaf B s recto. A similar floral decoration is to be seen on the other leaf s recto, in the very same position. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers ABE-1695571019874

Bibliografische Details

Titel: Leaf from Ottoman Qu'ran Koran early C19th ...

Verlag: Turkey [Anatolian]

Erscheinungsdatum: 1825

Einband: No Binding

Zustand: Very Good

Auflage: 1st Edition