The Master Scribes: Qur'ans of the 10th to 14th Centuries
- List Price: $350.00
- Binding: Hardcover
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publish date: 12/01/1992
Description:
The second of four volumes cataloguing the Qur'ans, this book includes a Qur'an that retains its original illumination by the greatest calligrapher of the Middle Ages, Yaqut al-Musta 'simi. Other masterpieces include a Qur'an written in gold from twelfth-century Iraq; the only twelfth-century Qur'an from Valencia; and a manuscript that is possibly the earliest Qur'an to survive from India.
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