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Today is Eid...

ninichissima

25 Oct 2012 — 1 min read

... and this beautiful folio comes from the present-day Uzbekistan, Samarkand. It is attributable to the calligrapher 'Umar Aqta', who made this to the ruler Timur. It represents a beautiful calligraphy from Timurid period, written in muhaqqaq style and depicting Sura al-Qisas (28: 82-84).

This belongs to the one of most probably largest copies of Qur'an ever produced: each line is almost one meter long and each page over two meters tall. The legend goes that the ruler was quite unimpressed when the calligrapher presented him with a Qur'an copy that could fit under his signet ring; the calligrapher then produced a next copy so large that it was brought to the ruler Timur on a cart.

Folio from the "Qur'an of 'Umar Aqta'", late 14th-early 15th Century, the Met

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