Categories Antiques --- Garden --- Medicine --- Antiquities (Classical, Amer.) --- Asian Antiques --- Books, Manuscripts    --- American    --- <<Asian>>    --- English    --- European    --- Other --- Decorative Arts --- Ethnographic --- Furniture --- Maps, Atlases, Globes --- Maritime --- Musical Instruments --- Other Antiques --- Primitives --- Rugs, Carpets --- Silver --- Textiles, Linens

Item Details 18th/19th CENT.GOLD ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT KORAN PAGES Seller: joeperadua ( 950  ) End Time: 2008-07-15 02:37:27 GMT Bids: 0 Current Price: $9.99 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 234 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 beautiful floral device are present on the gallery photo.Also many very fine lines of commentary on all sides of the pages. This 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:

What are you looking for?

© 2004 Online-Auctions.org  All rights reserved.

Home | Categories | eBay Links | Keywords | Niche Sites | Product Listings |

eBay & eBay.com are registered trademarks of eBay, Inc.