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INDIA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
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LARGE QUR'AN
INDIA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 509ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. of large black naskh with red interlinear translation in nasta'liq, text panels outlined in gold, black and blue, gold roundel verse markers, margins with copious commentary between gold outer rules, catchwords, marginal roundels marking various points in the text, first and final bifolio marking the beginning of sura al-isra' with double page gold and polychrome illumination framing 5ll. of text in clouds reserved against gold ground, final sura followed by a falnama, first fly-leaf with later owner's notes, in contemporaneous brown morocco with stamped and gilt floral lattice design, the doublures with découpé medallion and spandrels
Text panel 8 ¾ x 4 5/8in. (22.2 x 11.8cm.); folio 14 x 8 ½in. (35.5 x 21.6cm.)
INDIA, EARLY 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 509ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 9ll. of large black naskh with red interlinear translation in nasta'liq, text panels outlined in gold, black and blue, gold roundel verse markers, margins with copious commentary between gold outer rules, catchwords, marginal roundels marking various points in the text, first and final bifolio marking the beginning of sura al-isra' with double page gold and polychrome illumination framing 5ll. of text in clouds reserved against gold ground, final sura followed by a falnama, first fly-leaf with later owner's notes, in contemporaneous brown morocco with stamped and gilt floral lattice design, the doublures with découpé medallion and spandrels
Text panel 8 ¾ x 4 5/8in. (22.2 x 11.8cm.); folio 14 x 8 ½in. (35.5 x 21.6cm.)
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