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A LARGE MAGHRIBI QUR'AN FOLIO
ANDALUSIA OR NORTH AFRICA, 13TH/14TH CENTURY
Qur'an XXI, sura al-anbiya', vv.96 (part)-101 (part), Arabic manuscript on vellum, each side with 7ll. of sepia maghribi script, with pink, red, yellow and blue reading marks, with four gold and polychrome roundel verse markers inscribed aya in gold kufic, with one large almond-shaped gold and polychrome marginal marker for a khams outlined in blue above a bold kufic marker, trimmed minor staining, mounted
10¼ x 9 1/8in. (26.1 x 23cm.)

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