AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY AHMED AL-HILMI, STUDENT OF MEHMED HULUSI EFENDI, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, PROBABLY EDIRNE, MID-19TH CENTURY

AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY AHMED AL-HILMI, STUDENT OF MEHMED HULUSI EFENDI, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, PROBABLY EDIRNE, MID-19TH CENTURY

Arabic manuscript on paper, 300 leaves plus 2 fly-leaves, 15 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink, ruled in gold, verses separated by gold roundels, surah headings in white riqa against a gold ground, blue and gold verse markers in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, f.299a with the colophon within a roundel against a gold ground, in brown gilt leather binding, with flap

text panel: 15 by 8cm.

leaf: 20. by 13.2cm.