Qur'anic Compilation Page, ca. 1370, Possibly made in Iraq, Baghdad, Ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper, Text block: 14 7

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Qur'anic Compilation Page, ca. 1370, Possibly made in Iraq, Baghdad, Ink, gold, and opaque watercolor on paper, Text block: 14 7/16 x 10 1/2 in. ( x cm), Codices, The manuscript this folio comes from contains the five suras, or chapters, from the Qur'an that start with the phrase al-hamd li-allah (praise to God). The pages of the manuscript were laid out and decorated in the same way as a complete Qur'an: each page has five lines of beautiful muhaqqaq script outlined with brush-applied gold, rosettes mark the end of each verse, and bands of illumination indicate the start of each chapter

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