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KASHMIR, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
KASHMIR, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 521ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh script, gold roundel verse markers, each line within double black-ruled gold division, Persian interlinear translation in red nasta'liq script, titles in white thuluth script on gold ground within cartouche, text within polychrome rules, gold roundel marginal markers, opening bifolium with gold and polychrome illuminated margins, followed by a gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, in original floral lacquered binding, fly-leaf with owner's stamps, last folio reinforced
Text panel 4 5/8 x 2¼in. (11.7 x 5.8cm.); folio 6 3/8 x 3¾in. (16.2 x 9cm.)
KASHMIR, 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 521ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 12ll. of black naskh script, gold roundel verse markers, each line within double black-ruled gold division, Persian interlinear translation in red nasta'liq script, titles in white thuluth script on gold ground within cartouche, text within polychrome rules, gold roundel marginal markers, opening bifolium with gold and polychrome illuminated margins, followed by a gold and polychrome illuminated headpiece, in original floral lacquered binding, fly-leaf with owner's stamps, last folio reinforced
Text panel 4 5/8 x 2¼in. (11.7 x 5.8cm.); folio 6 3/8 x 3¾in. (16.2 x 9cm.)