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QUR'AN
KASHMIR, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 493ff. plus 3 fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh within interlinear double gold rules, text within gold and black rules, gold roundel verse markers, gold and polychrome illuminated marginal markers, sura headings in blue on gold ground, comments in nasta'liq within gold cloud, Persian red nasta'liq interlinear translation, openin bifolium heavily illuminated, in lacquer binding
Text panel 7¼ x 3½in. (18.2 x 8.8cm.); folio 10 3/8 x 5¾in. (26.1 x 14.6cm.)

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