QUR'AN SECTION
QUR'AN SECTION

SIGNED MUHAMMAD AL-NAFI' BIN MUHAMMAD AL-HAYB (?) BIN AL-'ARABI BIN AHMAD IHYA NAJAL (?) MUHAMMAD AL-SHARIF, SUDAN OR WESTERN AFRICA, DATED THURSDAY 25 JUMADA I AH 1227/6 JUNE 1812 AD

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QUR'AN SECTION
SIGNED MUHAMMAD AL-NAFI' BIN MUHAMMAD AL-HAYB (?) BIN AL-'ARABI BIN AHMAD IHYA NAJAL (?) MUHAMMAD AL-SHARIF, SUDAN OR WESTERN AFRICA, DATED THURSDAY 25 JUMADA I AH 1227/6 JUNE 1812 AD
From Qur'an XXXVI, sura yasin, to the end, Arabic manuscript on paper, 62ff. plus two modern fly-leaves, each folio with 23ll. of black sudani script, with yellow, green and red tajwid marks, sura headings in red script, with hizb marginal markers in polychrome medallions, rub' markers in black sudani script between red frames, catchwords, colophon signed and dated, in modern binding with flap
Folio 8 5/8 x 6¼in. (21.6 x 15.6cm.)

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