Folio from the "Tashkent Qur'an" in Kufic script

A leaf of parchment covered in bold, angular Arabic letters written in dark brown-black ink across horizontal lines, with faint red-brown diacritic-like marks. The vellum is pale and worn at the edges, with a darker strip along the left margin.

Artist

Unknown

Date

late 8th–early 9th century

Medium

Ink on parchment

Source

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Size

3510 × 2811 px

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