An illuminated Qur'an, copied by Muhammad Amin al-Shukri al-Mali, Ottoman provinces, dated 1283 AH/1866-67 AD
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April 30, 03:48 PM GMT
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18,000 - 25,000 GBP
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Description
Arabic manuscript on paper, 157 leaves, plus 3 fly leaves, 21 lines to the page written in naskh in black ink, keywords and phrases picked out in red, verses separated by gold roundels, the text framed by gold and polychrome illuminated panels of various forms, surah headings in red, further text divisions marked by marginal annotations in red framed by gold and polychrome illumination, f.1b and f.2a illuminated in gold and polychrome framing text, in red leather binding
text panel: 18 by 11.6cm.
leaf: 23.8 by 15.4cm.
Each leaf of the Qur’an is decorated with an inventive array of illuminated panels and cartouches. The illuminator frames and sometimes divides the text panels with various devices, creating a playful and polychromatic presentation of the text.
The colophon records the scribe as Muhammad Amin al-Shukri al-Mali, son of al-Sayyid Muhammad al-Hamdi [al-Qarah Quyu’i] and student of Hasan al-Zuhdi. The nisba of the scribe’s father might relate to Karakuyu, the name of several villages across Anatolia. The colophon further records that the manuscript took sixty days to complete and was the scribe’s sixty-third copy.
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