[Qur'an] (manuscript)
Description
A 19th century Turkish manuscript of the Qur'an, the holy book of Islam. Includes black naskh within gold and black rules, and gold and polychrome roundel verse markers with red diacritics, sura headings in red ink on illuminated gold panels, red marginal‘ashr, occasional marginal medallions, catchwords; the opening is gold and polychrome illumination framing. Black naskh, in contemporaneous stamped and gilt brown leather binding.Ottoman Turkey. The Collection of Marvin L. Colker