Iran: A page from the oldest surviving Qur'an manuscript on paper, dated 972 CE and attributed to calligrapher Ali ibn Sadan al-Razi. Part of a four-volume work written in Kufic script, the remains of this manuscript are divided among Ardabil (a historical city in northern Iran), the Istanbul University Library and the Chester Beatty Library in Dublin.

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