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Shapero Rare Books is due to auction a Quranic relic that documents the early period of Islam. Photo: Shapero Rare Books
Shapero Rare Books is due to auction a Quranic relic that documents the early period of Islam. Photo: Shapero Rare Books
Rare 7th century Quranic manuscript to go on sale for €1m
Single-leaf folio is from a cache of the earliest known written forms of the Quran