Lot 222
Middle East.- Qur'an, Arabic manuscript, n.d
Estimate: £800 - 1,200
Description
Southeast Asia.- Qur'an, Arabic manuscript on paper, text fully vowelled in black ink, with verse markers and 'sura' titles in red, scribal corrections throughout, trimmed affecting catch-words, occasional light marginal staining, occasional small worming (affecting odd word), later calf, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, n.d
⁂ Unsigned and undated but likely copied in Southeast Asia or the Philippines. This is written on a mix of thin papers, most likely east Asian, the thin paper being a characteristic of Qur'an manuscripts copied in both Java and Mindanao.
Description
Southeast Asia.- Qur'an, Arabic manuscript on paper, text fully vowelled in black ink, with verse markers and 'sura' titles in red, scribal corrections throughout, trimmed affecting catch-words, occasional light marginal staining, occasional small worming (affecting odd word), later calf, rubbed, bumping to corners and extremities, 8vo, n.d
⁂ Unsigned and undated but likely copied in Southeast Asia or the Philippines. This is written on a mix of thin papers, most likely east Asian, the thin paper being a characteristic of Qur'an manuscripts copied in both Java and Mindanao.
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