Bifolium from the Andalusian Pink Qur'an
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Este pliego a doble página, copiado según el elegante estilo magrebí de la escritura árabe y provisto de contadores de versículos y marcas de postración de oro para guiar al lector, formaba parte de un lujoso Corán con varios volúmenes creado para un distinguido mecenas andalusí. Su característico papel rosado, excepcional en una época en la que muchos de los coranes andalusíes más exquisitos se seguían escribiendo en pergamino, se fabricó en Játiva, una ciudad cercana a Valencia conocida por su excelente producción de papel.
Copied in the elegant Maghribi style of Arabic script and featuring gold verse counters and prostration marks to guide the reader, this two-page spread was part of a luxurious, multivolume Qur’an made for an elite Andalusi patron. Its distinctive pink paper, used at a time when most fine Andalusi Qur’ans were still written on parchment, was milled in Játiva, a town near Valencia that was celebrated for its fine paper production.
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