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Qurʼan from the early Abbasid period.
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Qurʼan from the early Abbasid period.
A parchment leaf from a Qurʾan from the early Abbasid period,
having a distinct horizontal format. There are 15 lines to the
page and the third line, penned in gold ink, is a chapter heading
for sūrat al-Anbiyāʾ (Chapter 21).
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