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KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 351ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 14ll. of black naskh arranged in gold-speckled bands with red Persian nasta'liq interlinear translations, set within gold and blue rules, occasional marginal medallions and annotations, gold roundel verse markers, sura titles in polychrome thuluth reserved against gold cartouches, catchwords, opening bifolio with dense gold and polychrome illumination framing 7ll. of black naskh, in contemporaneous lacquer binding
Text panel 7 1⁄8 x 3 5⁄8in. (18.1 x 9.2cm.); folio 9 3⁄8 x 5 ½in. (23.9 x 13.9cm.)
KASHMIR, NORTH INDIA, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 351ff. plus three fly-leaves, each folio with 14ll. of black naskh arranged in gold-speckled bands with red Persian nasta'liq interlinear translations, set within gold and blue rules, occasional marginal medallions and annotations, gold roundel verse markers, sura titles in polychrome thuluth reserved against gold cartouches, catchwords, opening bifolio with dense gold and polychrome illumination framing 7ll. of black naskh, in contemporaneous lacquer binding
Text panel 7 1⁄8 x 3 5⁄8in. (18.1 x 9.2cm.); folio 9 3⁄8 x 5 ½in. (23.9 x 13.9cm.)
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