An illuminated Ottoman Qur'an, copied by Mustafa Hilmi Efendi, Turkey, dated 1256 AH/1840 AD

Arabic manuscript on paper, 303 leaves plus 4 flyleaves, 15 lines to the page written in black naskh script, surah headings in white against gold ground panels, catchwords, opening double-page illuminated polychrome frontispiece, illuminated marginal devices, tooled leather binding with central floral spray to each board, with flap 

In reasonably good overall condition, one board and doublure detached from binding requiring conservation, occasional smudges, colours and gold bright, as viewed.
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The colophon of the present manuscript states that this is the forty-eighth Qur'an by the hand of the scribe Mustafa Hilmi Ibn Uthman Efendi.