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LOT 0950
Western Asiatic Religious Manuscript Page Group
17TH-18TH CENTURY A.D.
8 7/8 x 5 3/4 in. (89 grams, 22.5 x 14.5 cm).
Group of sixteen paper leaves from a religious treatise, each comprising a block of twenty lines of Naskh script in black in with red sub-headings and highlighting, many framed by a large amount of handwritten marginal notation on various alignments with insertion points and references; probably from North Africa. [16, No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired 1970s-1996.
Property of a North American collector.
London collection, 2016.
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