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Two double-sided leaves from a Sultanate Qur'an, India, circa 1500, Arabic manuscript on paper,...
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Two double-sided leaves from a Sultanate Qur'an, India, circa 1500, Arabic manuscript on paper, 2 leaves, with 15 lines of Bihari script to the page, with gold and polychrome rosette verse markers, important words and phrases written in gold, the word Allah picked out in gold throughout, inner margins ruled in blue and red, large illuminated circular and pear-shaped devices in colours and gold in trimmed margins, sura headings in gold within illuminated panels, folio 15 x 11.1cm. (2)
Lot Footnotes
For other folios from the same qur'an see Bonhams 19 April 2007, Lot 18 and Christie's 23 April 2013, Lot 23.
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