Text from Sura 7 from the Koran. Vertical paper with nine lines of gold Neshki with thin black outlines to a page. Vowels and diacritical marks in red, reading marks in blue and black. The text is from Sura 7, starting in the middle of verse 23 and ending on the next page in the middle of verse 30. The gold rosettes indicae the end of a verse and give its unit number. The marginal decoration is the imprint of the decoration on the opposite page, marking the end of the twentieth verse.

Page from the Koran, 13th century

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This page, from chapter 7 of the Koran, is executed in elegant gold cursive script with thin black outlines. The vowels and diacritical marks are in red; the reading marks are in blue and black. The gold rosettes indicate the end of a verse.

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Page from the Koran
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51.37.15
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Text from Sura 7 from the Koran. Vertical paper with nine lines of gold Neshki with thin black outlines to a page. Vowels and diacritical marks in red, reading marks in blue and black. The text is from Sura 7, starting in the middle of verse 23 and ending on the next page in the middle of verse 30. The gold rosettes indicae the end of a verse and give its unit number. The marginal decoration is the imprint of the decoration on the opposite page, marking the end of the twentieth verse.