A Qur'an section, Juz 26-30 Copied by 'Abd Allah, North India, dated 1329AH/1911AD Arabic manuscript on paper, 161ff., with 9ll. and 6ll. of bold black naskh script to the page, with gold rosette verse markers, surah headers in red thuluth, marginal decoration in gold and opaque pigments, with twenty title pages illuminated in gold and opaque pigments each of the twenty sections with a dated and signed colophon, the Qur'anic text followed by prayers, original rebacked brown tooled morocco binding, folio 22 x 13.5cm. Provenance: Bonhams, 17 October 2002, Lot 131

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