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SIGNED IBN HAJI MUHAMMAD TAQI 'ALI ASGHAR, MUGHAL INDIA, DATED 5 DHU'L HIJJA AH 1197/1 NOVEMBER 1783 AD
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SIGNED IBN HAJI MUHAMMAD TAQI 'ALI ASGHAR, MUGHAL INDIA, DATED 5 DHU'L HIJJA AH 1197/1 NOVEMBER 1783 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 560ff. plus five fly-leaves, 9ll. of bold black naskh with Persian interlinear translation and commentary in red and black nasta'liq, sura headings in gold thuluth within gold cartouche with gold roundel verse markers outlined in black, the main text panel within thick black-ruled gold frame, further commentary in Persian in the margins, with gold thuluth section markers, two opening bifolios for sura al-fatiha and sura al-baqara with finely illuminated borders and cartouches in gold and polychrome, colophon signed and dated and with commissioning inscription with the name of an official, now rubbed, in finely decorated gilded and stamped red morocco with flap, marbled paper doublures
Text panel 10 ¼ x 4 7/8in. (26 x 12.2cm.); folio 16 ½ x 9 ¾. (41.8 x 24.8cm.)
SIGNED IBN HAJI MUHAMMAD TAQI 'ALI ASGHAR, MUGHAL INDIA, DATED 5 DHU'L HIJJA AH 1197/1 NOVEMBER 1783 AD
Arabic manuscript on paper, 560ff. plus five fly-leaves, 9ll. of bold black naskh with Persian interlinear translation and commentary in red and black nasta'liq, sura headings in gold thuluth within gold cartouche with gold roundel verse markers outlined in black, the main text panel within thick black-ruled gold frame, further commentary in Persian in the margins, with gold thuluth section markers, two opening bifolios for sura al-fatiha and sura al-baqara with finely illuminated borders and cartouches in gold and polychrome, colophon signed and dated and with commissioning inscription with the name of an official, now rubbed, in finely decorated gilded and stamped red morocco with flap, marbled paper doublures
Text panel 10 ¼ x 4 7/8in. (26 x 12.2cm.); folio 16 ½ x 9 ¾. (41.8 x 24.8cm.)
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