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CHINA, 17TH CENTURY
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CHINA, 17TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 430ff. bound in three volumes, each folio with 11ll. of black sini in text panels within double red rules, gold rosette verse markers, sura headings in red, bismillahs in slightly larger script, commentary and notes in smaller calligraphy surrounding text, the first and final bifolios of each volume with elegant gold and polychrome illumination framing 7ll. of text, the beginning of the first and second section, and the beginning and end of the third with similarly illuminated shamsa, each of the volumes in blue cloth covered binding, the doublures covered with paper
Text panel 8 x 4¾in. (20.2 x 12.2cm.); folio 11½ x 7in. (29.2 x 18cm.)
CHINA, 17TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 430ff. bound in three volumes, each folio with 11ll. of black sini in text panels within double red rules, gold rosette verse markers, sura headings in red, bismillahs in slightly larger script, commentary and notes in smaller calligraphy surrounding text, the first and final bifolios of each volume with elegant gold and polychrome illumination framing 7ll. of text, the beginning of the first and second section, and the beginning and end of the third with similarly illuminated shamsa, each of the volumes in blue cloth covered binding, the doublures covered with paper
Text panel 8 x 4¾in. (20.2 x 12.2cm.); folio 11½ x 7in. (29.2 x 18cm.)
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