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QAJAR IRAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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QAJAR IRAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 249ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 17ll. of black naskh script, with gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in red thuluth script within clouds on gold ground cartouches, text within gold and polychrome rules, with marginal illuminated medallions, catchwords, opening bifolio heavily illuminated with text in clouds on gold ground, in Qajar lacquer covered binding
Text panel 5 x 2 5/8in. (12.7 x 6.7cm.); folio 7 5/8 x 5in. (19.3 x 12.5cm.)
QAJAR IRAN, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 249ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 17ll. of black naskh script, with gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in red thuluth script within clouds on gold ground cartouches, text within gold and polychrome rules, with marginal illuminated medallions, catchwords, opening bifolio heavily illuminated with text in clouds on gold ground, in Qajar lacquer covered binding
Text panel 5 x 2 5/8in. (12.7 x 6.7cm.); folio 7 5/8 x 5in. (19.3 x 12.5cm.)