AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY MIR HAFIZ IBRAHIM, KNOWN AS AL-'AFIF, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1245 AH/1829-30 AD
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AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, COPIED BY MIR HAFIZ IBRAHIM, KNOWN AS AL-'AFIF, TURKEY, OTTOMAN, DATED 1245 AH/1829-30 AD
Arabic manuscript on light green paper, 304 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 roundels, surah headings in white riqa’ against a gold ground within cartouches, gold and polychrome verse markes in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, f.303b with the colophon written against a gold, red and blue ground, f.304a decorated with a bunch of flowers, in green gilt leather binding, with flap and fitted box
text panel: 9.3 by 5.7cm.
leaf: 14.2 by 9.3cm.
Christie’s London, 24 November 1987, lot 76.
N. Safwat, A Collector’s Eye. Islamic calligraphy in Qur’ans and other manuscripts, London 2010, no.36, pp.154-5.
Mir Hafiz Ibrahim was the administrator (mutawalli) of the Valide Sultan Mosque in Uskudar, Istanbul. The Yeni Valide Mosque was commissioned by Sultan Ahmed III (r.1703-30) in honour of his mother. Built between 1708 and 1710, the complex included a madrasa, a hospice, a courtyard fountain and a clock tower.