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A group of Arabic manuscript fragments, including a 19th-century manuscript model of the...
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A group of Arabic manuscript fragments, including a 19th-century manuscript model of the Prophet’s sandal inscribed with prayers on paper, a vellum bifolium of a non-Quranic text in an early round script, 9th-11th century, and a medieval Arabic note on paper, undated, loose in a folder inscribed “Arabe pour Prof. J[?]”, (3)
Provenance: The Collection of Dr Adolf Grohmann (1887-1977); Private collection, The Netherlands, acquired at at Sotheby’s London, 14th December 1987, lot 148.
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