AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED AND ILLUMINATED BY HAFIZ ‘ALI B. MEHMED, STUDENT OF IBRAHIM AL-SHAWKI, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1278 AH/1861-62 AD
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AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED AND ILLUMINATED BY HAFIZ ‘ALI B. MEHMED, STUDENT OF IBRAHIM AL-SHAWKI, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1278 AH/1861-62 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 172 leaves plus 4 fly-leaves, 15 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in gold, black and red, verses separated by gold and polychrome rosettes, surah headings in white cursive against a gold ground within cartouches decorated with flowers, verse markers in the margins within gold and polychrome floral roundels, f.1b with an illuminated shamsa, f.2b and f.3a with a polychrome and gold illuminated frontispiece and f.171b and f.172a with a finispiece bifolium, f.172b with a illuminated roundel, in stamped and gilt leather binding, with flap
13.5 by 10cm.
Collection of Arthur A. Houghton (US)
The master of our calligrapher was Ibrahim Shawki, himself a student of Isma'il Zuhdi (for more information on Isma'il Zuhdi, see Sotheby's London, 19 October 2016, lot 142).