AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, NORTH INDIA, KASHMIR, 19TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 303 leaves plus 8 fly-leaves, 17 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink within clouds against a gold ground, ruled in black and gold, verses separated by pointed gold roundels, surah headings in blue against a gold ground, gold and polychrome verse markers in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, two additional double pages marking the middle and end of the Qur’an, in lacquer binding decorated with flowers, the doublures with gold flowers on blue ground, with leather spine 15.7 by 9.4cm. Please note: Condition 9 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers for this sale is not applicable to this lot.
AN ILLUMINATED QUR’AN, NORTH INDIA, KASHMIR, 19TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 303 leaves plus 8 fly-leaves, 17 lines to the page, written in naskh in black ink within clouds against a gold ground, ruled in black and gold, verses separated by pointed gold roundels, surah headings in blue against a gold ground, gold and polychrome verse markers in the margins, f.1b and f.2a with an illuminated frontispiece, two additional double pages marking the middle and end of the Qur’an, in lacquer binding decorated with flowers, the doublures with gold flowers on blue ground, with leather spine 15.7 by 9.4cm. Please note: Condition 9 of the Conditions of Business for Buyers for this sale is not applicable to this lot.
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