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Source Description
This folio from Walters manuscript W.552 contains text in Kufic script. Kufic is an angular script with a rhythmic and strongly horizontal composition of letters and words. It is named after the city of Kufa in central Iraq, despite the fact that no link between that city and the script has ever been determined. In the early centuries of Islam, this script, or "font", was used for writing the sacred text, the Qur'an. The red marks serve as an aid to the individual reading or writing the text.
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Document identity
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80999
label
Folio with Kufic Script
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object
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1
Source metadata
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80999
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object
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normalized
title
Folio with Kufic Script
description
This folio from Walters manuscript W.552 contains text in Kufic script. Kufic is an angular script with a rhythmic and strongly horizontal composition of letters and words. It is named after the city of Kufa in central Iraq, despite the fact that no link between that city and the script has ever been determined. In the early centuries of Islam, this script, or "font", was used for writing the sacred text, the Qur'an. The red marks serve as an aid to the individual reading or writing the text.
provenance
Henry Walters, Baltimore [date and mode of acquisition unknown]; Walters Art Museum, 1931, by bequest.
date
3rd century AH/AD 9th century (Abbasid)
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CC0
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en
genreSpecific
illuminated manuscripts
folios (leaves)
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1
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1
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import
dimensions
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cm
width
13.5
height
21
dimensionsRaw
H: 5 5/16 x W: 8 1/4 in. (13.5 x 21 cm)
Source extras
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Islamic
med
ink and pigments on parchment
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6768
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MIS
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none
Single page context
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1
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0
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photo
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