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QUR'AN
PROBABLY NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 418ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh, sura headings in red naskh, with red and blue text rules, catchwords, marginal comments, opening bifolio with later added illumination, colophon stating that the Qur'an was written in 'haram muqaddas' by Mayankhan (?), a student of 'Abd al-Hakim, in AH 1169/1755-6 AD, in stamped morocco binding
Text panel 7 x 3½in. (17.7 x 9cm.); Folio 10 5/8 x 6in. (27 x 15.5cm.)

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