AN IMPRESSIVE MAMLUK QUR'AN SECTION
CAIRO, EGYPT, FIRST HALF 14TH CENTURY
AN IMPRESSIVE MAMLUK QUR'AN SECTION CAIRO, EGYPT, FIRST HALF 14TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on ivory paper, 77ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of elegant black muhaqqaq , verses marked with gold and polychrome rosettes, catchwords, khams and 'ashr marked in stylised kufic within marginal medallions in gold, blue and black, hizb marked with large gold thuluth in the margins, sura headings in bold black-outlined gold thuluth sometimes with interstices filled in black, folios trimmed, occasional areas of repair and re-inking, in later red morocco with flap and with a band of scrolling animate vine, white paper doublures Folio 17¾ x 12¾in. (45 x 32.5cm.)
AN IMPRESSIVE MAMLUK QUR'AN SECTION
CAIRO, EGYPT, FIRST HALF 14TH CENTURY
AN IMPRESSIVE MAMLUK QUR'AN SECTION CAIRO, EGYPT, FIRST HALF 14TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on ivory paper, 77ff. plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 13ll. of elegant black muhaqqaq , verses marked with gold and polychrome rosettes, catchwords, khams and 'ashr marked in stylised kufic within marginal medallions in gold, blue and black, hizb marked with large gold thuluth in the margins, sura headings in bold black-outlined gold thuluth sometimes with interstices filled in black, folios trimmed, occasional areas of repair and re-inking, in later red morocco with flap and with a band of scrolling animate vine, white paper doublures Folio 17¾ x 12¾in. (45 x 32.5cm.)
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