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QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
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QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 234ff. plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 18ll. of elegant black naskh, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in black and red on gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, text panels within gold rules, gold and polychrome marginal hizb medallions, the opening bifolio fully illuminated surrounding black naskh in clouds reserved against gold ground, in contemporaneous floral lacquer binding, the first board now detached
Text panel 5¾ x 3¼in. (14.5 x 8cm.); folio 7½ x 4¾in. (19.2 x 12.3cm.)
QAJAR IRAN, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 234ff. plus 5 fly-leaves, each folio with 18ll. of elegant black naskh, gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in black and red on gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, text panels within gold rules, gold and polychrome marginal hizb medallions, the opening bifolio fully illuminated surrounding black naskh in clouds reserved against gold ground, in contemporaneous floral lacquer binding, the first board now detached
Text panel 5¾ x 3¼in. (14.5 x 8cm.); folio 7½ x 4¾in. (19.2 x 12.3cm.)
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