Carpet Page Fragment from a Bible

 

Egypt, probably Cairo, 11th Century

 

The fragment of carpet page which contained four small and one large central roundel decorated with palmette motifs and framed by rectangular panels of foliage scroll, all outlined in micrography.

LENINGRAD PUBLIC LIBRARY, COD. II 262

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