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DescriptionQur'an 4475.jpg	Manuscript in Arabic on paper, China, late 16th to early 17th c., 30 vols. (complete) 50-60 ff. per vol., 20x28 cm, single column, (13x17 cm), 5 lines in a regional muhaqqaq book script, sura headings in gold on a dark blue ground with red ruling and frame, verses separated by gold rosettes, opening and closing double-page illumination for each volume with knotwork and arabesque panelling in gold and colours, frontispiece with 2 circles containing geometrical pattern of interlocking triangles and circles with diamonds containing the profession of faith above in Kufic book script, and 2 vertical lines of text in gold thuluth book script. Binding: China, late 16th to early 17th c., blind-stamped leather with octagonal central medallion formed like a flower, flanked at top and bottom by 2 tear-drop motifs with verses from the Qur'an, with flap, sewn on 3 cords. Context: For 10 volumes of a Qur'an from ca. 1300 in contemporary bindings, see MS 4468. Provenance: 1. Sam Fogg, London.
Date	May 2008
Source	http://www.schoyencollection.com/religions_files/ms4475.jpg: the Schoyen Collection
Author	See Description.
Other versions	The "star of David" at the center (three interlaced diamonds with notches) is a 12-crossing Brunnian link topologically equivalent to File:Brunnian-3-not-Borromean.svg...

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