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CHINA, 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN SECTION (JUZ')
CHINA, 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Juz' XXII, Arabic manuscript on paper, 53ff. as numbered plus six fly-leaves (four modern), each folio with 5ll. of black sini script, with gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in gold thuluth script outlined in black within red cartouches, some interlinear translation, text within double red rules, opening and final bifolia with gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, catchwords, in modern Chinese-style stamped binding with flap and slip case
Text panel 6¾ x 4½in. (17 x 11.5cm.); folio 11¼ x 7½in. (28.5 x 19.2cm.)
CHINA, 17TH/EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Juz' XXII, Arabic manuscript on paper, 53ff. as numbered plus six fly-leaves (four modern), each folio with 5ll. of black sini script, with gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, sura headings in gold thuluth script outlined in black within red cartouches, some interlinear translation, text within double red rules, opening and final bifolia with gold and polychrome illuminated cartouches, catchwords, in modern Chinese-style stamped binding with flap and slip case
Text panel 6¾ x 4½in. (17 x 11.5cm.); folio 11¼ x 7½in. (28.5 x 19.2cm.)