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PROBABLY MOROCCO, NORTH AFRICA, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN SECTION
PROBABLY MOROCCO, NORTH AFRICA, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
Qur'an I (sura al-fatiha) to Qur'an VI (sura al-an'am), Arabic manuscript on paper, 96ff., two modern fly-leaves, 21ll. of sepia maghribi to the page, groups of five verses marked by a yellow letter ha, sura headings in yellow kufic script, with polychrome illuminated marginal medallions, vocalization in polychrome, the first two sura with finely illuminated title cartouches issuing palmettes into the margin, preceded by double page of geometric compositions in polychrome, similar illumination on final folio, misbound, in 16th or 17th century tooled morocco
Folio 11 ½ x 7 ¾in. (29 x 19.7cm.)
PROBABLY MOROCCO, NORTH AFRICA, 16TH/17TH CENTURY
Qur'an I (sura al-fatiha) to Qur'an VI (sura al-an'am), Arabic manuscript on paper, 96ff., two modern fly-leaves, 21ll. of sepia maghribi to the page, groups of five verses marked by a yellow letter ha, sura headings in yellow kufic script, with polychrome illuminated marginal medallions, vocalization in polychrome, the first two sura with finely illuminated title cartouches issuing palmettes into the margin, preceded by double page of geometric compositions in polychrome, similar illumination on final folio, misbound, in 16th or 17th century tooled morocco
Folio 11 ½ x 7 ¾in. (29 x 19.7cm.)
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