AN ILLUMINATED OTTOMAN QURAN SIGNED MUSTAFA RUSDI,... Lot n° 45

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page with 15 lines written in black naskh script, tajwid and catchwords in red, ruled in gilt and blue borders, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black. Surah headings in white thuluth script on a gilt ground, large gold and polychrome marginal floral motifs indicating 'the Juz'. Two opening pages heavily with gilt and polychrome decoration framing 7 lines of black naskh script in clouds reserved against a sprinkled gold ground. The last three pages with a prayer for completion of the recitation of the Quran (Due- al-Khatm) and signed Mustafa Rusdi student of Saleh Sabri en dated 1280 AH/1863 AD. In gilt brown morocco binding. 13.5 by 20 cm.