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ARABIA, 19TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
ARABIA, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 300ff., each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with red roundel verse markers, sura headings in red thuluth script within red cartouches, text within double red rules, opening bifolio with polychrome illuminated headpieces and cartouches, occasional marginal notes and later owners' inscriptions, colophon signed Yasin al-Qutayfi, with date of AH 1284, the place of copy marked as Al-Hisa probably added, in Ottoman stamped and tooled brown morocco binding with flap
Text panel 9 ¼ x 5 5/8in. (23.6 x 14.2cm.); folio 12 3/8 x 8 5/8in. (31.6 x 22cm.)
ARABIA, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 300ff., each folio with 15ll. of black naskh script, with red roundel verse markers, sura headings in red thuluth script within red cartouches, text within double red rules, opening bifolio with polychrome illuminated headpieces and cartouches, occasional marginal notes and later owners' inscriptions, colophon signed Yasin al-Qutayfi, with date of AH 1284, the place of copy marked as Al-Hisa probably added, in Ottoman stamped and tooled brown morocco binding with flap
Text panel 9 ¼ x 5 5/8in. (23.6 x 14.2cm.); folio 12 3/8 x 8 5/8in. (31.6 x 22cm.)
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