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Lines from the verso of a single-folio fragment from a monumental Mamlūk copy of the Qur’ān carrying on the recto Sūrat Ibrāhīm (14) verses 22 through…
2 volumes (21 and 29 respectively) from a 30-volume copy of the Qur’ān with each juz’ (thirtieth) of the text bound in a single volume, perhaps…
Opening of the text in volume 21 from a 30-volume copy of the Qur’ān with each juz’ (thirtieth) of the text bound in a single volume, perhaps Eastern…
Slender copy of the Qur’ān in only 31 folios. After the Fātiḥah, each double-page opening presents an entire juz’ (30th) of the text in 51 lines…
Illuminated opening of a copy of the Qur’ān with marginal commentary providing translation in Persian. In manner of calligraphy, illumination, layout,…
Illuminated opening of a late Ottoman copy of the Qur’ān which elsewhere on the margins includes glosses commenting on the variant readings (qirāʼāt).…
West African loose-leaf copy of the Qur’ān with leather wrapper and satchel. The script (Barnāwī), decoration, format, writing material, and enclosure…
Full-page illumination of the evangelist Mark, from a book of the Four Gospels containing full-page portraits of the evangelists Mark and John.…
Large intial "U" opening the Gospel according to Mark, from a book of the Four Gospels. Edessa, Mesopotamia, 1161
The colophon indicates that this manuscript was written in the Church of Mother of the God in Edessa (Urfa) in 1161 by the priest Vasil from an…