A Qur'an scroll (tumar) commissioned for Ghiyath al-Din Sultan Muhammad ibn Sultan Eretna, signed Mubarakshah

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A Qur'an scroll (tumar) commissioned for Ghiyath al-Din Sultan Muhammad ibn Sultan Eretna, signed Mubarakshah

A QUR'AN SCROLL ( TUMAR ) COMMISSIONED FOR GHIYATH AL-DIN SULTAN MUHAMMAD IBN SULTAN ERETNA, SIGNED MUBARAKSHAH IBN 'ABDULLAH, EASTERN ANATOLIA, DATED AH 754/1353-54 AD Arabic manuscript on buff paper, the beginning with a series of alternated round and rectangular panels heavily and elegantly illuminated in gold, silver and polychrome and including religious invocations and names of God, flanked

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