the black silk ground embroidered with silver and gilt-metal threads with a central double-column archway with a stylised hanging lamp above bands of calligraphic inscriptions, the tughra applied on a red silk ground within a wreath with floral fronds on each side, bordered by calligraphic cartouches and roundels

The condition overall good, few minor nicks and tears with associated consolidation, discoloration and losses to gilding, re-backed, the top with a velcro band for hanging, as viewed.
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inscriptions

In the long cartouches in the borders:  Qur’an, chapter II (al-baqara), verse 255 and most of verse 256.

In the roundels in the borders:  Names of the Four Orthodox Caliphs, Hasan🐼, Husayn, four of Prophet’s Companions, ending with ‘And his companions all of them’

In the top panel:

wa kafi bi’llah muhammad shahidan rasul allah wa al-din ma’ahu

‘And enough is God for a witness Muhammad Messenger of God and ♔the Religion with him’

In the two red roundels:  The shahada

In the two bands of the arch and the five lines i🍌n the arch:

Qur’an, chapter XLVIII (al-fath), verses 1-8, ending with:  &ls♏quo;Mighty God told the Truth’

The tughra of ‘Abd al-&ls🔥quo;Aziz (1277-93/1861-7ౠ6)

In the black band under the tughra:

amara bi-tajdid hadhahi al-sitara al-mubaraka mawlana al-sultan al-maghazi ‘abd al-‘aziz khan bin al-sultan mahmud khan bin al-sultan ‘abd al-hamid khan khallada allah khilafatahu sana 1283 

‘Our lord of military virtues al-Sultan ‘Abd al-‘Aziz Khan son of al-Sultan Mahmud Khan son of al-Sultan ‘Abd al-Hamid, may God make his caliphate eternal, ordered the renovation of this blessed cover the yea๊r 1283 (1866-7)’