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Qur'an Manuscript Folio (recto)

Cleveland Museum of Art

Recto side of a yellowed, aged manuscript page with darker brown spots and discoloration around the edges. The page has rough, uneven edges and surface. Arabic calligraphy text fills most of the page in black ink, with some gold ink. There are five gold circular designs resembling flowers or wheels with spokes on the page. The top section contains five lines of black Arabic script. The fifth line from the top is written in gold. Beneath that, there are two lines of black script, one line of gold script and one line of black script at the bottom.

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620 × 893 px
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