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LOT 1356
Western Asiatic Illuminated Quran Manuscript Page
18TH-19TH CENTURY A.D.
4 7/8 x 7 5/8 in. (2 grams, 12.5 x 19.5 cm).
Loose paper leaf with handwritten text in dense Naskh script, fifteen lines of dense black ink text to each side in a rectangular border with liquid gold fill, red diacritics and liquid gold rings as punctuation. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx M. Cummings collection, UK, 1990s.
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