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CHINA, CIRCA 17TH/18TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN SECTION (JUZ')
CHINA, CIRCA 17TH/18TH CENTURY
Juz' XIV, Arabic manuscript on paper, 51ff. as numbered plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 5ll. of black sini script, with gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in greyish blue thuluth script on gold and green illuminated ground within rectangular cartouche, text within double red rules, opening bifolium with gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, with gold and polychrome illuminated marginal markers, the doublures with découpé blue paper decoration in the shape of large trefoils, in possibly original stamped morocco binding with flap
Text panel 6¾ x 4 3/8in. (17 x 11.2cm.); folio 10½ x 7¾in. (26.6 x 19.5cm.)
CHINA, CIRCA 17TH/18TH CENTURY
Juz' XIV, Arabic manuscript on paper, 51ff. as numbered plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 5ll. of black sini script, with gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in greyish blue thuluth script on gold and green illuminated ground within rectangular cartouche, text within double red rules, opening bifolium with gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, with gold and polychrome illuminated marginal markers, the doublures with découpé blue paper decoration in the shape of large trefoils, in possibly original stamped morocco binding with flap
Text panel 6¾ x 4 3/8in. (17 x 11.2cm.); folio 10½ x 7¾in. (26.6 x 19.5cm.)
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Please note that this Qur'an section should be dated "Late 16th/17th century" and not "17th/18th century" as printed in the catalogue.