A CHINESE QUR'AN IN THIRTY JUZ'
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A CHINESE QUR'AN IN THIRTY JUZ'

SIGNED ISMA'IL MAWLA, QING CHINA, 18TH CENTURY

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A CHINESE QUR'AN IN THIRTY JUZ'
SIGNED ISMA'IL MAWLA, QING CHINA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 30 juz' from the same Qur'an, each with approximately 56ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 5ll. of black sini with rosette verse markers, sura headings in red, text panel within red rules, occasional gold and polychrome marginal nisf markers, the opening bifolio of each juz with gold and polychrome illumination framing text, the first juz' with more elaborate opening illumination with marginal medallions and also with a bifolio of illuminated prayers at the beginning, sura headings in gold, the end of the first section with gold illuminated margins and gold rosette verse roundels throughout, the colophon in the last section signed, each juz' separately bound in Chinese tooled red and brown morocco decorated with geometric patterns


Text panel 6¼ x 4½in. (15.8 x 11.4cm.); folio 10 7/8 x 7¼in. (27.2 x 18cm.)
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