LARGE QUR'ANSouth East Asia, possibly Brunei, late 18th/19th century

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LARGE QUR'AN South East Asia, possibly Brunei, late 18th/19th century

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LARGE QUR'AN
South East Asia, possibly Brunei, late 18th/19th century
Manuscript on paper, 284ff. with 11ll. black naskh, red, yellow and green rosettes between verses, double red ruled margin, coloured marginal medallions marking the divisions of text, sura headings in red on yellow panels with associated marginal palmettes, illuminated opening bifolio, final folio with erroneous colophon attributing the manuscript to Brunei AH 1050/1640 AD, brown morocco binding with stamped medallion and spandrels - 43 x 31cm.
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The paper is Russian, laid and watermarked with the cyrillic letters BUFSAGP and the date 1795. This stands for the bumazhnaia uglichskaia fabrika soderzhatelia Aleksandra Grigor'evicha Pereiaslavtseva, the Uglich paper factory of the landlord Aleksandr Grigorevich Pereiaslavtsev. Uglich is a town north of Moscow where Dmitri, the small son of Ivan the Terrible was murdered.

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