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Lot 91
26.10.2023 10:30UTC +00:00
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£ 6 930
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ID 1033109
Lot 91 | QUR'AN
Estimate value
£ 4 000 – 6 000
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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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