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QUR'AN
INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 458ff. plus 10 fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh script with Persian interlinear translation in red nasta'liq script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in white thuluth script on gold ground within illuminated cartouches, text within gold and polychrome rules, marginal section markers in red thuluth script, with gold and polychrome illuminated margins, some bifolios throughout with gold floral illuminated margins, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination, marginal commentary in Persian, catchwords, in brown morocco, very clean copy
Text panel 7 5/8 x 4in.(19.2 x 10.2cm.); folio 11¼ x 6¼in. (28.3 x 16.5cm.)

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