A QURAN SIGNED HAFIZ MEHMED VEHBI, OTTOMAN TURKEY,... Lot n° 25

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page with 15 lines written in black naskh script, tajwid in red, within gold and black rules, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black and polychrome dots. Surah headings in white thuluth script outlined in black on a gilt ground panel, gold and polychrome marginal floral motifs indicating the 'Juz and Sajda'. Two opening biofolia heavily with gilt and polychrome decoration framing 7 lines of black naskh script in clouds reserved against a pricked gold ground. The last four pages with a prayer for completion of the recitation of the Quran (Due- al-Khatm) and signed Hafiz Mehemd vehbi (Hafiz Muhammed wahbi) Efendi student of Husayn known as Hafiz Effendi and dated in 1219 AH/1804 AD. In brown morocco binding with flap and decorated with a gilt painted central medallion and border. 11.5 by 17 cm.