- Section from a Quran Manuscript - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Often Qur'ans were divided into thirty sections, each called juz' This manuscript represents portions of the twenty‑ninth juz' of such a set A colophon survives on another section, providing the date The text blocks on its pages consist of only five lines of muhaqqaq script, providing a sense of monumentality Gold kufic script within illuminated frames and margin medallions distinguish
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