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A fine Quranic bi-folio manuscript on burnished paper from a damaged Ottoman Quran of the early C18th.  The right folio and upper portion of the left folio contains verses of the Meccan Chapter 37  Surah As-Saffat (Those Angels lined up in ranks)) v133-182. The verses recount that the Prophets Lot and Jonah were both messengers of God sent into the pagan communities to try to change their ways by putting questions to and challenging the pagans thereby questioning their assertion that Allah had daughters while the Meccans had sons.  It then conveys that God's forces will be victorious, and warning them that when calamity strikes their stronghold, it will bring a terrible dawn for those who were warned but failed to heed the warnings. 

It also contains the header and the first verses of  Chapter 38, Sad which describes the persistent rejection and mockery by disbelievers who, entrenched in arrogance, find it astonishing that a messenger from among themselves has come to warn them of past destructions, labelling him a magician and a liar. It goes on to provide further warnings to deniers.  

The scripture is written in nashki black ink with the exception of the illuminated header for Chapter 18 which is in white Thuluth script within a gold cartouche with floral decoration endings. The verses are marked by gold aya and text has a few diacritical markings in red for devotees to follow. Marginal floral devices mark out the 5th verse divisions.  The script is framed in double gold broad columns with a red outer frame line. Larger more elaborate 'aya' mark the 10th divisions of the scripture. This is really lovely decorative manuscript. 

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