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SOUTH-EAST ASIA, PROBABLY MALAYSIA, 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
SOUTH-EAST ASIA, PROBABLY MALAYSIA, 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 350ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with red roundel verse markers, sura headings in red cursive script within cartouche, text within double red rules, opening bifolio with sura al-baqara illuminated medallions, similar illumination on the final bifolio, sura fatiha not illuminated, in gilt and stamped red morocco binding with flap
Text panel 8 3/8 x 5in. (21.3 x 12.8cm.); folio 13 3/8 x 8in. (31.3 x 20.4cm.)
SOUTH-EAST ASIA, PROBABLY MALAYSIA, 19TH/EARLY 20TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 350ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with red roundel verse markers, sura headings in red cursive script within cartouche, text within double red rules, opening bifolio with sura al-baqara illuminated medallions, similar illumination on the final bifolio, sura fatiha not illuminated, in gilt and stamped red morocco binding with flap
Text panel 8 3/8 x 5in. (21.3 x 12.8cm.); folio 13 3/8 x 8in. (31.3 x 20.4cm.)
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