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safe conduct for André du Ryer, translator at the French mission in Istanbul and ambassador extraordinary of the Ottoman sultan Murad IV (r. 1623-1640), dated 30 Dhū al-Ḥijja 1041 / 17 July 1632

images taken from book which is one of three copies…

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blind-tooled leather binding with flap

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blind-tooled and gilt-painted leather binding with flap

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complete copy of the Quran

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incomplete copy of the Quran that begins with verse 2:17

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blind-tooled leather binding with flap

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blind-tooled and gilt-painted leather binding with flap

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Complete copy of the Quran.
In this eighteenth century Ottoman manuscript the text distribution of the beginning follows the model discussed above for the Quran with a Persian interlinear translation: sura 1 on the right page and the first verses of…

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Published by Holwein, Elias, who died in 1659; his widow ran the workshop until 1662.
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