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NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 418ff. plus five flyleaves, 12ll. of black naskh on a gold-speckled ground, tajwid in red, with red Persian interlinear translations, within gold, red and black rules, blue outer rules, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, catchwords, marginal notes in red marking 'ashr, sajda and juz', sura headings in blue thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated panels, opening folio with a gold and polychrome illuminated shamsa framing 6ll. of text, followed by a bifolio illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 7ll. of text on a gold ground, in modern blue binding, brown paper doublures
Text panel 11 x 6 5/8in. (28 x 16.6cm.); folio 15 3/8 x 9 ½in. (38.9 x 23.9cm.)
NORTH INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on cream paper, 418ff. plus five flyleaves, 12ll. of black naskh on a gold-speckled ground, tajwid in red, with red Persian interlinear translations, within gold, red and black rules, blue outer rules, gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, catchwords, marginal notes in red marking 'ashr, sajda and juz', sura headings in blue thuluth on gold and polychrome illuminated panels, opening folio with a gold and polychrome illuminated shamsa framing 6ll. of text, followed by a bifolio illuminated in gold and polychrome framing 7ll. of text on a gold ground, in modern blue binding, brown paper doublures
Text panel 11 x 6 5/8in. (28 x 16.6cm.); folio 15 3/8 x 9 ½in. (38.9 x 23.9cm.)
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