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LOT 1419
Miniature Book with Quranic Prayers
19TH CENTURY A.D.
1 3/8 in. (16.24 grams, 35 mm).
Leather-bound with handwritten texts in black and red ink, first and last pages decorated.
Provenance
Acquired in the 1970s.
Private collection, London, UK.
This lot has been cleared against the Art Loss Register database, and is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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