CHINA, DATED AH 1138/1725-26 AD

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QUR'AN
CHINA, DATED AH 1138/1725-26 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 272ff. plus one fly-leaf, each folio with 15ll. of tight black muhaqqaq script, verse markers as gold roundels, sura headings in red overlined in gold, the name of Allah in red overlined in gold, the text preceded with bold illuminated shamsas and prayers, the colophon heavily illuminated, with polychrome marginal markers, each juz' marked with illuminated marginal illumination, in contemporaneous stamped brown morocco binding with flap
Text panel 5 3/8 x 3 ¼in. (13.6 x 8.2cm.); folio 8 ¼ x 5 5/8in. (21 x 14.3cm.)

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The colophon states that this Qur'an was copied from Yum al-'Arafa (the 9th day of the month of Dhu al-Hijja) until the last Friday of the month of Muharram of the year AH 1138. The owner is stated as Qamar Ibn Qarashi and the scribe as Shams al-Din

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