A QURAN SIGNED BY SEYYID ABDULKADIR EFENDI, OTTOMAN TURKEY, DATED 1142 AH/1729 AD

A complete Quran, Arabic manuscript on cream paper, each page with 15 lines written in black naskh script within gold and black rules, gold roundel verse markers outlined in black. Surah headings in white thuluth script on a gilt ground panel, gold and polychrome marginal floral motifs indicating the 'Juz and Hizb'. Two opening biofolia heavily with gilt and polychrome decoration framing 7 lines of black naskh script in clouds reserved against a sprinkled gold ground. The last two folio with a prayer for completion of the recitation of the Quran (Due- al-Khatm)in elegant black script reserved in clouds on a gilt ground and signed 'Abdulakadir Ibn Hussein' and dated in 1142 AH/1729 AD. The margins decorated with gilt floral motifs. In brown morocco binding with gold painted central medallion and border. 11 by 17 cm. THE CALLIGRAPHER. Student of Sheikh Hamdullah six scripts School, born in Kastamonu.Sayyid Abdulkadir Efendi, was one of the master calligraphers of the time, especially in thuluth writing, died in his house in Kasımpaşa in 1146 AH/1732-1733 AD and was buried in Istanbul. Born as son of Seyyid Hüseyin Şa’ban Efendi, a sheikh of Kastamonu. He migrated to Istanbul at a young age and started to make hebbal (spinning) in Zindankapı. Because of his interest in calligraphy, he left his job and to study thuluth and naskh at the school of Suyolcuzâde Eyyubi Mustafa Efendi. However, upon the death of his teacher, he continued his practice from Ağakapılı İsmâ’il Efendi, and he succeeded in obtaining approval.