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Nine pages from a Qur'an manuscript

Abbasid or Seljuq period
probably 11th century
Object Place: North Africa or West or Central Asia

Medium/Technique Ink, color and gold on paper
Dimensions Height x width: 41.2 × 29.6 cm (16 1/4 × 11 5/8 in.)
Credit Line Denman Waldo Ross Collection
Accession Number24.416
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ClassificationsBooks and manuscripts

DescriptionNine detached folios from a copy of a Qur'an; each folio contains nine lines of Arabic calligraphy in black new style (eastern kufic) script; red, green, and blue diacritical and vocalization marks; illuminated teardrop and rosette verse markers.
InscriptionsSura 17 [al-ʾIsrāʾ, "The Night Journey"], vv. 44-51