"A MAGHREB QUR’AN NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO 17TH CENTUR...

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£10,000 - £12,000

"A MAGHREB QUR’AN
NORTH AFRICA, PROBABLY MOROCCO
17TH CENTURY"

Arabic manuscript on paper, 12 lines of sepia maghrib script, letter pointing in red, hamza al-kat’ in gold dot, hamza al-wasl in blue dot, gold drops and gold trefoils with blue dots correspond verses, text outlined with red and blue rules, sura headings in gold, illuminated opening folio, suraa al- Fatiha set in a horizontally ovoidal cartouche, extending to the margin with half palmette and two roundels, red protection paper, illuminated ending folio with a cartouche written in pray for prophet, burgundy leather binding tooled and gilded, spine repaired with leather, with flap