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KASHMIR, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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KASHMIR, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 193ff. as numbered plus six modern fly-leaves, each folio with 17ll. of black naskh script on gold ground within double black-rules, with Persian interlinear translation in small red nasta'liq script, with red and white rosette verse markers, text within black and blue-ruled gold frame, with marginal floral gold and polychrome medallions, marginal section markers in red thuluth script, with red pagination, opening and final bifolios with gold and polychrome illumination, intermediate bifolio with illuminated margins, in restored 19th century stamped and painted morocco binding with flap, old label of Rabi Gallery to the blue cloth front doublure, in good condition
Text panel 9 x 4 5/8in. (23 x 11.8cm.); folio 11¾ x 7in. (29.8 x 17.4cm.)
KASHMIR, EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Arabic and Persian manuscript on paper, 193ff. as numbered plus six modern fly-leaves, each folio with 17ll. of black naskh script on gold ground within double black-rules, with Persian interlinear translation in small red nasta'liq script, with red and white rosette verse markers, text within black and blue-ruled gold frame, with marginal floral gold and polychrome medallions, marginal section markers in red thuluth script, with red pagination, opening and final bifolios with gold and polychrome illumination, intermediate bifolio with illuminated margins, in restored 19th century stamped and painted morocco binding with flap, old label of Rabi Gallery to the blue cloth front doublure, in good condition
Text panel 9 x 4 5/8in. (23 x 11.8cm.); folio 11¾ x 7in. (29.8 x 17.4cm.)