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INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 517ff. plus 9 fly-leaves, each folio with 10ll. of black naskh script with Persian interlinear translation in red nasta'liq, with gold roundel verse markers outlined in black, sura headings in red thuluth script on gold ground within cartouches, with blue and gold marginal medallions, section markers in red thuluth script, text within blue and black-ruled gold frame, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated borders and headpieces, with marginal comments in gold clouds, in modern black binding
Text panel 6¼ x 3 3/8in. (16.2 x 8.3cm.); folio 9 7/8 x 5 7/8in. (25 x 14.7cm.)
INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 517ff. plus 9 fly-leaves, each folio with 10ll. of black naskh script with Persian interlinear translation in red nasta'liq, with gold roundel verse markers outlined in black, sura headings in red thuluth script on gold ground within cartouches, with blue and gold marginal medallions, section markers in red thuluth script, text within blue and black-ruled gold frame, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illuminated borders and headpieces, with marginal comments in gold clouds, in modern black binding
Text panel 6¼ x 3 3/8in. (16.2 x 8.3cm.); folio 9 7/8 x 5 7/8in. (25 x 14.7cm.)