Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript
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Like many early Qur'an folios, this one is written on parchment in dark brown ink with a broad-nibbed reed pen. The horizontally stretched ligatures are characteristic of Qur'ans of the late 9th, early 10th century, and are thought to be a response to the rectangular page format. The angular script is moderated by the roundness of several letters that look like large black dots, their inner black spaces reduced almost to a needlepoint. Vocalization is indicated by red dots and the triangular pause marks are made up of gold dots.
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