A POLYCHROME-PAINTED SOUTH-EAST ASIAN QUR’AN
Possibly Sumatra, Indonesia, or Malay Peninsula, Muslim South-East Asia, late 19th century

A POLYCHROME-PAINTED SOUTH-EAST ASIAN QUR’AN
Possibly Sumatra, Indonesia, or Malay Peninsula, Muslim South-East Asia, late 19th century

Arabic manuscript on wove paper, 270ff., each folio with 17ll. of black ink Javi script, red circular verse markers, marginal markers in yellow circles and red lettering, chapter headings in red, the opening and closing bifolios with elaborate red and yellow illumination, the text panel set in lobed cartouches surrounded by dense vegetal meanderings and foliage, the colophon inscribed ‘completed in the early evening, the 9th of Zul Haj, in this year, in this city’, in a black cotton-lined card binding with leather spine, the text panel 25cm x 12.3cm, the folio 32.9cm x 20cm.

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Dimensions: the text panel 25cm x 12.3cm, the folio 32.9cm x 20cm