A CHINESE QUR'AN JUZ’ 6 China, 19th Century...
A CHINESE QUR'AN JUZ’ 6
China, 19th Century
Arabic manuscript on paper, 51ff., plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 5ll., of strong black sini script against white ground, the verses marked with gold rosettes, with red highlights, text panels within red rules, nisf juz’ marker in illuminated cartouche, sura heading within gold panel, catchwords, opening bifolio and the closing page with gold illumination with 3ll. each, in contemporaneous flapped, diced calf leather wrap-around binding with blind tooling, with coloured thread headboard, re-cased with blue cotton paste-down preserving the original binding, top left of the cover marked in black ink with number 6, one phrase in the text marked in red with ‘ahesteh khand’ (Pers. read slowly), possibly denoting the use of the manuscript in a seminary, the text panel 17.5cm x 11.5cm and the folio 28cm x 20cm.
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A CHINESE QUR'AN JUZ’ 6
China, 19th Century
Arabic manuscript on paper, 51ff., plus two fly-leaves, each folio with 5ll., of strong black sini script against white ground, the verses marked with gold rosettes, with red highlights, text panels within red rules, nisf juz’ marker in illuminated cartouche, sura heading within gold panel, catchwords, opening bifolio and the closing page with gold illumination with 3ll. each, in contemporaneous flapped, diced calf leather wrap-around binding with blind tooling, with coloured thread headboard, re-cased with blue cotton paste-down preserving the original binding, top left of the cover marked in black ink with number 6, one phrase in the text marked in red with ‘ahesteh khand’ (Pers. read slowly), possibly denoting the use of the manuscript in a seminary, the text panel 17.5cm x 11.5cm and the folio 28cm x 20cm.
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