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Description
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Arabic manuscript on paper, 308ff. plus 4 fly-leaves, each folio with 15ll. of fine black naskh, polychrome and gold verse roundels, sura headings in white naskh in gold cusped cartouche with gold and polychrome floral decoration at either end, text panel within wide gold rules, margins with fine gold and floral medallions marking points in text, opening bifolium with text on white clouds reserved against gold ground and surrounded by elegant gold and polychrome illumination, colophon written on white clouds reserved against gold ground and surrounded by floral illumination, turquoise fly-leaves at either end with gilt floral decoration, set inside stamped, tooled and gilded green morocco binding with flap, good condition Text panel 4 1/8 x 2¼in. (10.4 x 5.8cm.); folio 7¼ x 4½in. (18.4 x 11.4cm.)
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