Volume two of a large illuminated Qur'an, copied by Hasan known as al-Tatari(?), student of Salih al-Na'ili, Turkey or Egypt, Ottoman, dated Saturday end of Jumada I 1284 AH/28 September 1867 AD
Estimate
20,000 - 30,000 GBP
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Description
Arabic manuscript on paper 135 leaves, plus 2 fly leaves, 15 lines to the page written in naskh in black ink, within gold, red and black rules, verses separated by gold roundels with red and blue dots, juz' marked by gold and polychrome illuminated marginal medallions, further text divisions marked by marginal annotations in gold, surah heading in white on gold panels, f.1b with illumination framing text in clouds reserved against a gold ground, in contemporaneous gilt and tooled brown leather binding, with flap, green paper doublures
text panel: 32.5 by 19.1cm.
leaf: 44.2 by 29.2cm.
The teacher of our scribe, Salih Na’ili Efendi, was a well-known poet and calligrapher born in Mantasir in 1823. He taught calligraphy in the Nuri Osman and Mehmed Pasha madrasas and later moved to Egypt where he died in 1876 (Mahmud Kemal Inal [Ibnülemin], Son Hattatlar, Istanbul, 1955, pp.225-8). Alhough the scribe of this impressive and large volume is unknown, his epithet suggests an Egyptian origin. Here, he spells ‘Tatari’ with the letter ‘ṭ’ rather than the letter ‘t’, and this spelling is also found earlier in Mamluk Egypt.
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