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MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
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QUR'AN
MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 295ff. plus 14 fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of neat black naskh on gold painted panels outlined in blue and black, gold and polychrome verse roundels, various points in the Qur'an marked in red and gold naskh in the margins, sura headings in white in cartouches with gold and polychrome spandrels, opening bifolio with floral illumination in pink, red, white and green surrounding 6ll. of text, trimmed, in red morocco with gold stamped borders, marbled paper doublures
Text panel 3 3/8 x 1 5/8in. (8.2 x 4.1cm.); folio 3¾ x 1 7/8in. (9.3 x 4.6cm.)
MUGHAL INDIA, 18TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, 295ff. plus 14 fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of neat black naskh on gold painted panels outlined in blue and black, gold and polychrome verse roundels, various points in the Qur'an marked in red and gold naskh in the margins, sura headings in white in cartouches with gold and polychrome spandrels, opening bifolio with floral illumination in pink, red, white and green surrounding 6ll. of text, trimmed, in red morocco with gold stamped borders, marbled paper doublures
Text panel 3 3/8 x 1 5/8in. (8.2 x 4.1cm.); folio 3¾ x 1 7/8in. (9.3 x 4.6cm.)
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