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A CHINESE QUR'AN JUZ': SURA AL-BAQARAH (2) China, 19th century Sura Al-Baqarah (2), Arabic manuscript on wove paper, 86ff., 3 fly-leaves, with 7ll. to the page of black ink sini script, the illuminated opening and closing bifolios in polychromes and gold, aya markers as golden rosettes, marginal notes in black, illuminated motifs and Chinese auspicious patterns in polychromes, the text set within concentric red rules, in a tooled brown calf leather binding with flap, the text panel 15cm x 8cm, the folio 21cm x 12cm.

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A CHINESE QUR'AN JUZ': SURA AL-BAQARAH (2) China, 19th century Sura Al-Baqarah (2), Arabic manuscript on wove paper, 86ff., 3 fly-leaves, with 7ll. to the page of black ink sini script, the illuminated opening and closing bifolios in polychromes and gold, aya markers as golden rosettes, marginal notes in black, illuminated motifs and Chinese auspicious patterns in polychromes, the text set within concentric red rules, in a tooled brown calf leather binding with flap, the text panel 15cm x 8cm, the folio 21cm x 12cm.

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