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SIGNED MUHAMMAD BIN ‘ALI BIN HUN (?) AL-JABALI, SAHARAN AFRICA, POSSIBLY SUDAN, DATED AH 1273/1857-58 AD
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SIGNED MUHAMMAD BIN ‘ALI BIN HUN (?) AL-JABALI, SAHARAN AFRICA, POSSIBLY SUDAN, DATED AH 1273/1857-58 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 193ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 20ll. Of cursory sudani script, with red dot verse markers, sura headings in red within polychrome cartouches, opening and intermediate folios with large illuminated panels in blue, red and brown, colophon signed and dated, slightly trimmed, later notes and stamps, in north African gilt and stamped red morocco binding
Folio 7 x 5in. (17.7 x 12.8cm.)
SIGNED MUHAMMAD BIN ‘ALI BIN HUN (?) AL-JABALI, SAHARAN AFRICA, POSSIBLY SUDAN, DATED AH 1273/1857-58 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 193ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 20ll. Of cursory sudani script, with red dot verse markers, sura headings in red within polychrome cartouches, opening and intermediate folios with large illuminated panels in blue, red and brown, colophon signed and dated, slightly trimmed, later notes and stamps, in north African gilt and stamped red morocco binding
Folio 7 x 5in. (17.7 x 12.8cm.)
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