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KASHMIR, CIRCA 1800
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QUR'AN
KASHMIR, CIRCA 1800
Arabic manuscript on paper, 482ff. plus ten fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh script with double black-ruled gold divisions, with gold roundel verse markers outlined in black, sura headings in blue thuluth script on gold ground within illuminated cartouches, text within gold and polychrome rules, opening and final bifolia with gold and polychrome illumination, a few bifolia throughout the manuscript with gold illuminated margins, marginal markers and catchwords within illuminated medallions, in modern brown morocco binding
Text panel 7½ x 3¾in. (19.2 x 9.5cm.); folio 10¾ x 6½in. (27.3 x 16.5cm.)
KASHMIR, CIRCA 1800
Arabic manuscript on paper, 482ff. plus ten fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of black naskh script with double black-ruled gold divisions, with gold roundel verse markers outlined in black, sura headings in blue thuluth script on gold ground within illuminated cartouches, text within gold and polychrome rules, opening and final bifolia with gold and polychrome illumination, a few bifolia throughout the manuscript with gold illuminated margins, marginal markers and catchwords within illuminated medallions, in modern brown morocco binding
Text panel 7½ x 3¾in. (19.2 x 9.5cm.); folio 10¾ x 6½in. (27.3 x 16.5cm.)