Layout: Written mainly in 15 lines per page; frame-ruled. Script: Naskh. Decoration: Double-page illumination (illuminated 'frontispiece') at opening ; written area and ruled margin throughout surrounded by frame in a series of gold bands defined by black fillets with out thinner red rule ; Qurʼānic text executed in black ink ; verse dividers in the form of small gilt discs. Binding: Boards covered in dark brown leather ; binding with flap ; pastedowns and fly leaves in dark red paper ; upper and lower covers gold-tooled in panel style with vegetal borders and crosshatched dot and floral pattern in central panel ; spine gilt with thin geometric pattern ; minor splitting at head of flap. thin wove paper. Illuminated copy of the Qurʼān in Turkish Naskh script.
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