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Other sections from this Qur'an sold at Christie's, South Kensington, 9 October 2015, lot 348 and 24 April 2015, lot 329.
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MOROCCO, 18TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN SECTION
MOROCCO, 18TH CENTURY
Qur'an XIV (sura Ibrahim) to Qur'an LVIII (sura al-nahl), v.77, Arabic manuscript on paper, 50ff. (as numbered) plus two modern fly-leaves,. 10ll. of black maghribi to the page, verse markers as red pyramids, sura headings in large polychrome script, text within double red rules, with polychrome marginal medallions, including a sajda marker in the form of a long cypress tree, catchwords, in tooled stamped brown morocco with flap
Text panel 47 ½ x 3 1/8in. (11.4 x 8cm.); folio 7 3/8 x 5 ¼in. (18.8 x 13.3cm.)
MOROCCO, 18TH CENTURY
Qur'an XIV (sura Ibrahim) to Qur'an LVIII (sura al-nahl), v.77, Arabic manuscript on paper, 50ff. (as numbered) plus two modern fly-leaves,. 10ll. of black maghribi to the page, verse markers as red pyramids, sura headings in large polychrome script, text within double red rules, with polychrome marginal medallions, including a sajda marker in the form of a long cypress tree, catchwords, in tooled stamped brown morocco with flap
Text panel 47 ½ x 3 1/8in. (11.4 x 8cm.); folio 7 3/8 x 5 ¼in. (18.8 x 13.3cm.)
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