CULTURE / REGION OF ORIGIN: Ottoman Empire

DATE: Mid-17th Century CE

DIMENSIONS: 200 x 135 mm (7.9 x 5.3 in.)
DESCRIPTION: A single leaf from The Quran, written on heavy paper on both sides in Nashki Arabic script with black and red ink in a skilled hand. Provincial Ottoman Turkish work.

PROVENANCE: From an old California private collection of Islamic manuscripts and manuscript leaves formed in the early 1960s.