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CENTRAL ASIA OR NORTH WEST INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
CENTRAL ASIA OR NORTH WEST INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 338ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black script, the first, middle and last in large thuluth script within red cartouche, the intermediate text in smaller black naskh script, verse markers as red roundels, sura headings in red thuluth script, text within black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, marginal markers in red thuluth script, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated margins, later added notes in the Qajar period, old repairs, in dark brown morocco binding
Text panel 9 x 5 5/8in. (22.8 x 14.3cm.): folio 12 ½ x 8in. (31.8 x 20.4cm.)
CENTRAL ASIA OR NORTH WEST INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 338ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black script, the first, middle and last in large thuluth script within red cartouche, the intermediate text in smaller black naskh script, verse markers as red roundels, sura headings in red thuluth script, text within black-ruled gold frame, catchwords, marginal markers in red thuluth script, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated margins, later added notes in the Qajar period, old repairs, in dark brown morocco binding
Text panel 9 x 5 5/8in. (22.8 x 14.3cm.): folio 12 ½ x 8in. (31.8 x 20.4cm.)
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