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Antique Map Auction Sale No. 122 - closed 1/5/2007

Featuring 928 lots of rare antique maps, charts, pocket maps, globes and atlases
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Lot #856: "[Lot of 2 - Arabic Leaves]" Osman Nuri bin el Haj

Manuscript medieval Lot of 2 Arabic Leaves
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Estimate:
$120.00 - $160.00
Sold for: $210.00

Lot 856
By: Osman Nuri bin el Haj
Subject: Illuminated Manuscripts
Date: 1850

Publication: Ottoman Koran

Condition: A
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Color: hand color

Size: 4.4 x 7 inches
11.2 x 17.8 cm

Two pages of superb Koran leaves by the renowned calligrapher, Osman Nuri bin el Haj. Each side is written in Arabic Naskhi script in black ink and illuminated with burnished gold leaf with red and green ink. The paper is characteristic of that used for sacred texts. It was made by a separate guild and is sized with albumen and polished with an agate polisher. Beautiful marginal decoration.



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