A MORROCAN LEATHER BOUND QURAN
Signed Muhammad Bin 'Abd Al-Qadir Bin Ibrahim Bin Ahmad Bin [..] Al-Hasani, North Africa, probably Morocco, dated 26 DHU Al-Qa'da AH 1197/23 October 1783 AD.
Arabic manuscript on paper, 270ff. plus six fly-leaves, each folio with 19ll. of black maghribi script, with red and blue reading marks, red vocalization, sura hearings in red within polychrome cartouhe, text within double red rules, with marginal markers in maghribi, catchwords, opening bifolio with polychrome illuminated panels and title cartouches, colophon signed and dated, in stamped brown morocco
Text panel 5 3/8 x 3in. (13.8 x 7.6cm.); folio 8 x 5 ¾in. (20.4 x 14.5cm.)

Origin: Morocco

Period: 18th century

Sizes: 20.50 cm. H x 15.50 cm. W
8.07 in. H x 6.1 in. W