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Koran in naski script


17th Century QUR'AN Manuscript.

Number of leaves: 333; size: 12.8 x 17.3 cm; written surface: 6.8 x 13 cm; 13 lines to a page, in a clear, elegant naski script, in black ink on beige paper. The text is vocalized throughout with recitational markings in red. The first leaf is missing. All headings of suras are written in red ink. All verses are separated by red dots. The divisions of the Qur'an are marked on the margin in red. Contemporary brown morocco, with a flap, in the Arabic style of book binding, both covers are tooled and blind stamped with central medallions, edges rubbed, rebacked, first and last leaves repaired with minor loss of text. It was probably written in the seventeenth century.
$1400.

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