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Qur’an paper
(ورقة مصحف)

Title	Qur’an paper
Title Original	ورقة مصحف
Publication Date:	Approximately 300-400 AH / approximately 900-1000 AD
Publication Place	Near East or North Africa - Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
Subject	Writing on blue parchment
Type	Other
Language	Undetermined
Digital	Yes
Manuscript	Yes
Physical Dimensions	28.6×38.2 سم
Library:	Museum With No Frontiers
Library Asset ID	2011.9.32
Record ID	object;EPM;my;Mus21;9;ar
Library Location	Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia
Date	Approximately 300-400 AH / approximately 900-1000 AD
Notes	This is part of one of the most luxurious Qur’ans ever produced, commonly known as the Blue Qur’an. It contains verses 267-273 of Surat Al-Baqarah within 15 lines of Kufic script in gold ink on parchment paper dyed with blue indigo. The widespread use of brush strokes is evidence of the use of underlining with unpointed points on this page. The layout style of this page is characterized by the letter Ha in the form of a semicircle resting on a vertical straight line. There are no diacritics above or below the vowels, and there are no visible dots to distinguish between letters of the same form. As on other pages of the Blue Qur’an, the decoration of this page is minimal, with a slightly faded and oxidized silver rosette that forms the end of each verse. While the groups of ten verses were marked with a seventeen-petaled silver flower design with an inscription in the middle that showed the number of the particular verse, as the inscription on this page says that the number is “seventy-two.”
Sample Text	“Qur’an paper” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;my;Mus21;9;ar
Bu sayfanın künyesi	MWNF Working Number: MY1 09

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Qur’an paper

(ورقة مصحف)

Publication Date Approximately 300-400 AH / approximately 900-1000 AD

Publication Place Near East or North Africa - Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia

Subject Writing on blue parchment

Type Other

Language Undetermined

Digital Yes

Manuscript Yes

Physical Dimensions 28.6×38.2 سم

Library Museum With No Frontiers

Library Asset ID 2011.9.32

Record ID object;EPM;my;Mus21;9;ar

Library Location Islamic Arts Museum Malaysia

Date Approximately 300-400 AH / approximately 900-1000 AD

Notes This is part of one of the most luxurious Qur’ans ever produced, commonly known as the Blue Qur’an. It contains verses 267-273 of Surat Al-Baqarah within 15 lines of Kufic script in gold ink on parchment paper dyed with blue indigo. The widespread use of brush strokes is evidence of the use of underlining with unpointed points on this page. The layout style of this page is characterized by the letter Ha in the form of a semicircle resting on a vertical straight line. There are no diacritics above or below the vowels, and there are no visible dots to distinguish between letters of the same form. As on other pages of the Blue Qur’an, the decoration of this page is minimal, with a slightly faded and oxidized silver rosette that forms the end of each verse. While the groups of ten verses were marked with a seventeen-petaled silver flower design with an inscription in the middle that showed the number of the particular verse, as the inscription on this page says that the number is “seventy-two.”

Sample Text “Qur’an paper” within Discover Islamic Art Collections. Museum Without Borders, 2026. https://islamicart.museumwnf.org/database_item.php?id=object;EPM;my;Mus21;9;ar

Bu sayfanın künyesi MWNF Working Number: MY1 09