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Deep blue parchment page with rows of gold angular Arabic script and a dark round mark at the right edge.

Folio from the "Blue Qur'an"

A leaf of indigo-dyed parchment carries rows of angular gold Arabic script arranged in horizontal lines across the page. The bold, widely spaced letters stand out sharply against the deep blue ground, and a dark round medallion-like mark sits near the right edge.

Artist
Unknown
Date
second half 9th–mid-10th century
Medium
Gold and silver on indigo-dyed parchment
Source
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Size
3901 × 2972 px
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Public domain · The Metropolitan Museum of Art releases this image under CC0 (latest date 967).
Rights checked 2026-11-04 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (The Met Open Access, isPublicDomain=true)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 2004

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