His islamicmanuscripts info (I think no longer available) was a great source.

Visit agakhanmuseum.org/object382 to learn more about this fascinating manuscript.

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#ManuscriptMonday with details of manuscripts on display at the Raqqada Museum in Kairouan.

So much blue, but gold in abundance too.

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Ramadan is approaching!

This fragment is from an Abbasid Qur’an manuscript (MS Add.1111), likely written in the 9th or 10th century CE.

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