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    • Leaf from a Qur'an, ca. 1250–1350
    North Africa
    Ink, colors, and gold on vellum

    10 1/4 x 8 9/16 in. (26 x 21.7 cm)
    Rogers Fund, 1937 (37.21)

    The manuscript from which this leaf comes must have been one of the finest North African Qur’ans of the period, especially for its uncommon use of gold. The preservation of a number of archaic calligraphic features derived from kufic and the use of vellum are typical of manuscripts produced in the Maghrib (hence the definition of maghribi for this script) and in Andalusia in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.

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  • Schimmel, Annemarie, with the assistance of Barbara Rivolta. "Islamic Calligraphy." The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 50, no. 1 (Summer, 1992).
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  • Leaf from a Qur'an, ca. 1250–1350
    North Africa
    Ink, colors, and gold on vellum

    10 1/4 x 8 9/16 in. (26 x 21.7 cm)
    Rogers Fund, 1937 (37.21)