Koran : manuscript, [1887 or 8].

Illumination on pp. [1-2]; chapter headings illuminated; gold dots and foliate flourishes mark verse and chapter endings; text enclosed in wide gold borders; illuminated marginal rosettes mark division of text into thirtieths (juzʼ) and sixtieths (ḥizb); gilder's name at bottom of p. [522]: dhahhabahu Bahāʼ al-Dīn bin Tawfīq; edges gilded with foliate patterns; green leather endpages painted with gold and silver sunburst designs; binding gold-stamped and painted in silver and gold foliate designs.Date and copyist's name on p. [518] at opening of closing invocation: qad tasharrafa bi-kitābat hādhihi al-muṣḥaf al-sharīf ... Kathīr al-Masāwī al-Būrdūrī Nūrī Ḥāfiẓ ʻUthmān al-mushtahar bi-Qāyish Zādah ... li-sanat khams wa-thalāthamiʼah wa-alf.Zakariya, Mohamed. "Islamic calligraphy: A technical overview." In Brocade of the pen: the art of Islamic writing. Carol Garrett Fisher, ed. (East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1991):Brocade of the pen : the art of Islamic writing. Carol Garrett Fisher, ed. (East Lansing, MI: Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, 1991),Mode of access: Internet.AnonymousPurchased in Cairo, 1924. Once part of the personal manuscript collection of Sultan Abdülhamid II of Turkey