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Description
Language: Arabic
Date: Hijri calendar (circa 1335); Gregorian calendar (circa 1917 AD)
UK Special Collections Arabic Script Codex #14
This small (14 cm) manuscript is a complete copy of the Qu’ran, the central religious text of Islam. The featured pages illustrate the manuscript’s elaborate design work, with unusual coloring and decorative motif around a chapter heading. This motif is repeated throughout the work.
Curation Date
10-2014
Photo Source
Special Collections Research Center, University of Kentucky Libraries
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 International License.
Keywords
Qu’ran, Middle East, Calligraphic manuscripts
