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LOT 1171
Miniature Book with Quranic Prayers
19TH CENTURY A.D.
1 in. (14 grams, 25 mm).
Leather-bound with handwritten texts in black and red ink, first four pages decorated. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired in the 1970s.
Property of a London lady, part of her family's collection.
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