Manuscript page with large dark angular Arabic script in lines, red and blue marks, faint arabesques behind, and a gold-ruled border on aged paper.

Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript, ca. 1180

A page of large dark-ink angular Arabic calligraphy set in horizontal lines, with red and blue diacritical marks and faint scrolling arabesques behind the text. A thin gold-ruled border frames the sheet, which shows the warm, worn tone of aged paper.

Artist: Unknown
Date: ca. 1180
Medium: Ink, opaque watercolor, and gold on paper
Source: The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size: 2605 × 3630 px

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Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, H. O. Havemeyer Collection, Gift of Horace Havemeyer, 1929

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