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SIGNED AHMAD BIN MUHIBB SAHAWI, SOUTH-EAST ASIA, DATED AH 1200
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SIGNED AHMAD BIN MUHIBB SAHAWI, SOUTH-EAST ASIA, DATED AH 1200
Arabic manuscript on paper, 385ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 13ll. of large black naskh script, with red roundel verse markers, sura headings in red within polychrome cartouches issuing a palmette into the margin, polychrome marginal medallions, opening bifolio possibly a later replacement, followed by a bifolio decorated with 'carpet' illumination in polychrome, colophon signed and dated and indicating the place of copy as 'Balibani' (?), in repaired tooled brown morocco binding
Folio 13 x 8 1/8in. (33 x 20.7cm.)
SIGNED AHMAD BIN MUHIBB SAHAWI, SOUTH-EAST ASIA, DATED AH 1200
Arabic manuscript on paper, 385ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 13ll. of large black naskh script, with red roundel verse markers, sura headings in red within polychrome cartouches issuing a palmette into the margin, polychrome marginal medallions, opening bifolio possibly a later replacement, followed by a bifolio decorated with 'carpet' illumination in polychrome, colophon signed and dated and indicating the place of copy as 'Balibani' (?), in repaired tooled brown morocco binding
Folio 13 x 8 1/8in. (33 x 20.7cm.)
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