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Style: Pictorial|Floral|Bird motif; Caption: Upper cover; Colour: Unspecified; Edge: Unspecified
Date Binding: 19c
Medium Decorative Technique: Lacquered; Cover Material: Unspecified
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Place of creation Binding: Persia
Object history Text: 1861; Unspecified; Unspecified
Notes Macchi states; ?). D. Haldane, Islamic Bookbindings, p. 134, n. 126 proposes a similar decorative layout on a Persian binding, probably Isfahan, which covers a manuscript composed of eight card folios with fourteen specimen of calligraphy, mostly in ta'liq script of scribes
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