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NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
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NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 162ff. plus four fly-leaves, 13ll. of small black maghribi to the page, with yellow roundel verse markers, sura headings in green, diacritics in red, text within double red rules, with polychrome illuminated marginal markers, opening bifolio with stylized polychrome illumination, the last two folios a later replacement, in contemporaneous tooled and stamped morocco with flap
Text panel 3 ¾ x 4in. (9.6 x 10.2cm.); folio 5 1/8 x 5 ¼in. (13 x 13.3cm.)
NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO, LATE 18TH/EARLY 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 162ff. plus four fly-leaves, 13ll. of small black maghribi to the page, with yellow roundel verse markers, sura headings in green, diacritics in red, text within double red rules, with polychrome illuminated marginal markers, opening bifolio with stylized polychrome illumination, the last two folios a later replacement, in contemporaneous tooled and stamped morocco with flap
Text panel 3 ¾ x 4in. (9.6 x 10.2cm.); folio 5 1/8 x 5 ¼in. (13 x 13.3cm.)
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