Ottoman Leaf From An Illuminated Koran. Circa early 1800s Chapters or Surahs (Al-Munafiqun) on high quality burnished paper There are fifteen lines of text in a delicate but firm black naskhi script, with full vowels and diacritical signs, rules in gold, blue and red, gold rosettes, illuminated Surah headings of white thuluth script on a gold ground and marginal devices in polychrome typical of that era. The Verso is blank, size 5¾” ´ 8½.