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LATE SAFAVID IRAN, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
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LATE SAFAVID IRAN, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 70ff. as numbered plus eight modern fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in red thuluth script on gold ground within illuminated cartouches, text within double black-ruled gold frame, with gold and polychrome marginal medallions inscribed in red thuluth script, opening and final bifolia with fine and extensive gold and polychrome illuminated margins and headpieces, text preceded and followed by short prayers, in 19th century lacquered binding
Text panel 5¾ x 2 7/8in. (13.7 x 7.3cm.); folio 6 3/8 x 3 7/8in. (16.2 x 9.6cm.)
LATE SAFAVID IRAN, FIRST HALF 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 70ff. as numbered plus eight modern fly-leaves, each folio with 25ll. of black naskh script, with gold and polychrome roundel verse markers, sura headings in red thuluth script on gold ground within illuminated cartouches, text within double black-ruled gold frame, with gold and polychrome marginal medallions inscribed in red thuluth script, opening and final bifolia with fine and extensive gold and polychrome illuminated margins and headpieces, text preceded and followed by short prayers, in 19th century lacquered binding
Text panel 5¾ x 2 7/8in. (13.7 x 7.3cm.); folio 6 3/8 x 3 7/8in. (16.2 x 9.6cm.)
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