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Koran Manuscript Folio (recto)
Koran Manuscript Folio (recto)
1200s-1300s
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Ink, gold, and color on parchment
Sheet: 52.7 x 55.4 cm (20 3/4 x 21 13/16 in.); Text area: 46.5 x 44 cm (18 5/16 x 17 5/16 in.)
Edward L. Whittemore Fund 1933.440.a
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This magnificent page from the “Chapter of Light” (24:59–61) in the Koran is written in the monumental script of Islamic Spain and North Africa, known as Maghribi Kufic. Words flow rhythmically with curving flourishes toward the left margin where letters end in almost perfect semicircles, an elegant hallmark that contrasts with the upright shafts. Distinctive markings—vowels in red and diacritics in blue—identify the vocalization of the text, which would have been read or recited aloud to an assembly.
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