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INDIA, 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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A LARGE QUR'AN
INDIA, 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 492ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 10ll. of black naskh script, with gold and red roundel verse markers outlined in black, sura headings in red naskh within blue cartouches, some phrases picked out in red, text within gold and polychrome frame, catchwords, marginal markers in red script, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination, in later black morocco binding with red spine, in fitted case
Text panel 11 x 6 3/8in. (28 x 16.3cm.); folio 16 3/8 x 10 5/8in. (41.8 x 27cm.)
INDIA, 17TH OR EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 492ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 10ll. of black naskh script, with gold and red roundel verse markers outlined in black, sura headings in red naskh within blue cartouches, some phrases picked out in red, text within gold and polychrome frame, catchwords, marginal markers in red script, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination, in later black morocco binding with red spine, in fitted case
Text panel 11 x 6 3/8in. (28 x 16.3cm.); folio 16 3/8 x 10 5/8in. (41.8 x 27cm.)