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SIGNED MUHAMMAD BIN MIHR 'ALI, POSSIBLY LAHORE, NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY

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QUR'AN
SIGNED MUHAMMAD BIN MIHR 'ALI, POSSIBLY LAHORE, NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 431ff. plus 8 fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll. of black naskh script, with gold roundel verse markers outlined in black, sura headings in red naskh script within cartouches, text within blue and black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, marginal markers in red naskh script, opening bifolio with gold, blue and black illumination, colophon signed, indication of the place of copy possibly tampered with, in brown morocco binding
Text panel 5 1/8 x 4¾in. (13 x 7cm.); folio 7 3/8 x 4½in. (18.5 x 11.5cm.)

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