QUR'AN, PROBABLY OMDURMAN, SUDAN, 19TH CENTURY

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QUR'AN, PROBABLY OMDURMAN, SUDAN, 19TH CENTURY
Arabic manuscript on paper, approx. 600 loose folios with 23ll. of black naskh with corrections in red, brown restored binding - folio 9 1/2 x 7 1/2in (24 x 19cm)

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Please note that a stamped and gilt inscription on the binding states that this copy of the Qur'an was acquired in Omdurman, Sudan, after the battle of 2nd September 1898.

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A stamped and gilt inscription on the binding's flap states that 'this copy of the Koran was acquired in Omdurman after the battle of the 2. Sept. 1898 by Suleiman Lutaif Head-Interpreter to the Ist Brigade (Wauchope's) and by him given to Herbert A. Hills English Judge of Appeal in the Egyptian mized courts'.

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