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The mystery of the-, dlsappearahc from the museum of. the '..'.Mosque\ ; " I Aksa. at..Jerusalem some years ago'c a Koran manuscript of the middle age was, solved the other day when it ws found in ; the shop of JaCairo'antiquit dealer,; tX. whom.=,the', document ha been sold for £50." The Koran we part of. a/, collection;'.-of '.twenty-fiy manuscript volumes,; which were coi sidered priceless because they had bee written by the Moorish Sultan Abdi Hussein Merini in' the thirteenth -cci ,tury. In the same style as the anciei Roman Koran, found in the Mosque c Cordova, the manuscript was treasure because of its remarkable.decoration It was written 605 years ago on gazel parchment, luxuriously . illustrate/ bound in gold, and embossed on boi sides in silver. T.i
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 12
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126TREASURE REGAINED Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 115, 16 May 1936, Page 12
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