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Item Details 18th/19th CENT.GOLD ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT KORAN PAGES Seller: joeperadua ( 940  ) End Time: 2008-07-15 02:43:16 GMT Bids: 0 Current Price: $5.99 Location: Fallston, MD Time Left: 0 Seconds For More Details: Click here Item Description Illumuninated pages of an 18th or 19th Century Arabic Ottoman Koran with 14K gold illumination,written in a very fine Nasih script,21 lines per page on "Durable" paper, 177 x 116 mm.Durable paper is handmade Laid paper treated with egg white and starch to give a polished and uniform writing surface.Sura endings illuminated in gold and a gold Sura bar is located on the Gallery photo.Also many very fine lines of commentary on all sides of the pages.Some of the gold frame at the text border is cracked through. These pages were written by a mastercraftsman caligrapher and are an art object in their own right.Please check my shipping costs.They are much more reasonable than my competition. On Nov-27-07 at 21:04:14 PST, seller added the following information:

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