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MAMLUK EGYPT, 14TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
MAMLUK EGYPT, 14TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 307ff. as numbered plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, with additional red markers and occasional gold marginal markers, sura headings in gold naskh outlined with black, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination, final illuminated shamsa, in Mamluk gilt stamped morocco binding with flap, the first folio a contemporaneous replacement
Folio 12 7/8 x 9¾in. (32.5 x 24.5cm.)
MAMLUK EGYPT, 14TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 307ff. as numbered plus 2 fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, with additional red markers and occasional gold marginal markers, sura headings in gold naskh outlined with black, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination, final illuminated shamsa, in Mamluk gilt stamped morocco binding with flap, the first folio a contemporaneous replacement
Folio 12 7/8 x 9¾in. (32.5 x 24.5cm.)
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Please note that there are five folios missing in this manuscript, affecting the text of the following suras (V, VI, XV and XXVII). Some folios from sura V and VI are misbound.