Qur'an
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Middletown, CT, Wesleyan University Library, Z113 .E33 1900z
Otto F. Ege, Fifteen Original Oriental Manuscripts, c1940, no. 12 (Printed, Handwritten, or Typescript)
General Information
Title
Qur'an
Material
Paper
Date of Origin
late 18th century
Script, Hands
Naskhi script
General Remarks
In the Islamic world, calligraphy has always been a fine art, the most zealously developed art in technique and the only art deemed worthy of a history. This miniature Arabic page, with delicate and sparkling limpidets, exemplifies a very skillful form of writing. Its style was developed from the formal and architectural Kufic of several centuries earlier. Even educated Persians, to whom Persian calligraphy is the supreme art, may admire this fine Arabian script, though of common usage.