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[al-Qurʼān].
Uniform title
Qurʼan.
Format
Manuscript, Book
Language
Arabic
Published/Created
[17--?]
Details
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Manuscripts, Arabic
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New Jersey
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Princeton
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Getty AAT genre
Illuminated manuscripts
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Islamic countries
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18th century
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Notes
Fols. 368; 41 x 26.7 cm.; written surface 23 x 14 cm.; 13 lines to page; on glazed Arabic paper; in naskhi and thuluth; with full vowel signs; with illuminations.
Medallions in gold and color in margins to mark divisions. First four folios and last, together with others in the middle, are profusely illuminated in gold and color. After the last Sūrah are several prayers. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding with flap; gilt and colored stamped and tooling on exterior and interior of cover and flap which are richly decorated; on interior of both covers is also Āyat al-Kursi (Sūrah II: 256); on interior of flap is Sūrah XXXIII: 56. MS in good condition; probably from the XVIIIth century.
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