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Subject(s)

• Islam—Prayers and devotions—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic Empire—16th century [Browse]

Notes

• Fols. 31; 9.2 x 5.8 cm.; written surface 6.7 x 3 cm.; 7 lines to page; on glazed and gilt Arabic paper; in elegant naskhi; with full vowel signs; with catchwords; with illumination.
• A fragment of the Koran containing Sūrahs I, XXXVI, XLVIII, followed by several prayers.
• Ruled marginal lines in gold. Fols. 1b, 2 and 15 a are elaborately illuminated in gold and color. Sūrah XLVIII: 28 (in part) to the end are added by a later hand and part is in margin. MS in good condition; Arabic leather binding. Probably from XVIth century.
• Acquired from Brill, Leyden, A.D. 1904.

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