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MUGHAL INDIA, DATED AH 1111/1699-1700 AD
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QUR'AN
MUGHAL INDIA, DATED AH 1111/1699-1700 AD
Arabic manuscript on gold-speckled paper, 472ff. plus six fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll. of black naskh script, each within gold-speckled cartouche between Persian interlinear translation in small black nasta'liq script, with gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in gold thuluth script outlined ni back, text within black-ruled gold frame, with gold and polychrome illuminated marginal markers, original marginal commentary, catchword, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination, commentary dated AH 1111 on reverse of final folio, in later 19th century stamped reddish brown morocco binding
Text panel 5¼ x 2½in. (13.1 x 6.3cm.); folio 7? x 4½in. (20.2 x 11.4cm.)
MUGHAL INDIA, DATED AH 1111/1699-1700 AD
Arabic manuscript on gold-speckled paper, 472ff. plus six fly-leaves, each folio with 11ll. of black naskh script, each within gold-speckled cartouche between Persian interlinear translation in small black nasta'liq script, with gold roundel verse markers, sura headings in gold thuluth script outlined ni back, text within black-ruled gold frame, with gold and polychrome illuminated marginal markers, original marginal commentary, catchword, opening bifolio with gold and polychrome illumination, commentary dated AH 1111 on reverse of final folio, in later 19th century stamped reddish brown morocco binding
Text panel 5¼ x 2½in. (13.1 x 6.3cm.); folio 7? x 4½in. (20.2 x 11.4cm.)
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