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Item Details 18th/19th CENT.GOLD ILLUMINATED MANUSCRIPT KORAN PAGES Seller: joeperadua ( 949  ) End Time: 2008-07-15 02:40:47 GMT Bids: 0 Current Price: $7.99 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 232 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 both sides of the pages.Also many very fine lines of commentary on all sides of the pages. 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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