An illuminated Ottoman Qur'an, attributed to the scribe Hasan Uskudari (d. 1614)
Turkey, Constantinople, late 16th Century/early 17th Century, bearing the date AH 1012/AD 1604-05
Arabic manuscript on paper, 540 leaves, 11 lines to the page written in large naskhi script in black ink with diacritics and vowel points in black and red, verse-endings marked with gold roundels with blue and orange dots, inner margins ruled in black and gold, illuminated double-page frontispiece in colours and gold, sura headings written in naskhi script in red within ruled panels, marginal decorations probably added later, last leaf with attribution to Hasan Uskudari and dated AH 1012/AD 1604-05 apparently added in a different hand, but probably roughly contemporary with the manuscript, contemporary Ottoman leather binding with embossed gold medallions, with flap with embossed line of Arabic in thuluth script in a gold cartouche, doublures of marbled paper
225 x 160 mm.
Footnotes:
The last leaf bears the following sentence, apparently added in a different hand, but probably roughly contemporary with the rest of the manuscript:
katabahu hasan uskudari ghafara dhunubahu amin sanah 1012 h
'Hasan Uskudari [Üsküdari] wrote it, may [God] forgive his sins, Amen, the year 1012 h [1603-04].

Hasan Üsküdari (d. AH 1023/AD 1614) was born in Üsküdar, an area of Constantinople, where he lived for his entire life, and where he was the calligraphy teacher at the Ayazma School. He studied with his relative Pir Mehmed Efendi, who was himself a grandson of the great calligrapher Shaykh Hamdullah, as well as with another grandson of Hamdullah, Dervish Mehmed Sa'id.
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