Arabian art: illuminated manuscript. Handpainted page with elaborate rose-work from a huge Koran in the collection of Francois Firmin-Didot. Arabe. Hand-finished chromolithograph by F. Durin from Albert-Charles-Auguste Racinet’s L’Ornement Polychrome, (Polychromatic Ornament), Firmin-Didot, Paris, 1869-73.

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