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A LARGE MAMLUK QURAN JUZ', EGYPT OR SYRIA, CIRCA...

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A LARGE MAMLUK QURAN JUZ', EGYPT OR SYRIA, CIRCA 14TH CENTURY Arabic manuscript on paper, 33ff. with 2 fly-leaves, 5ll. to each page, written in very elegant large black muhaqqaq script, gold rosette verse markers outlined in black and pointed in red dots, surah headings in large black thuluth script within gilt and polychrome decorated cartouches, occasional marginal gilt floral roundels indicating " Hizb, Nisf and Juz".Two opening pages with gilt and blue decoration framing 3ll. in clouds reserved on a red floral sprays decorated ground.In black morocco binding. Inscriptions: surah al-Waqiaa v.77-v.80 , surah At-Tubah v.94-v.129, surah Yunus complete, surah Hud v.1-v.5. 30 by 45 cm.