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Subject(s)

• Manuscripts, Arabic—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• Illuminated manuscripts—Islamic countries—19th century [Browse]

Notes

• Copied A.H. 1254 [A.D. 1838] by ʻAlī al-Ḥamadī.
• Fols. 328; 15.7 x 10 cm.; written surface 9.5 x 5.3 cm.; 15 lines to page; on glazed European paper; in naskhi; with catchwords; with illumination.
• This copy of the Koran is supposed to have been presented to the Ottoman Sultan ʻAbd al-Ḥamīd II, reigned A.D. 1876-1908.
• Acquired from Istanbul, A.D. 1936.

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