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Folio with Kufic Script   (Wikidata search (Cirrus search) Wikidata query (SPARQL)  Create new Wikidata item based on this file)
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Anonymous (Islamic)Unknown author
Title
Folio with Kufic Script
Description
English: 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.
Date 3rd century AH/AD 9th century (Abbasid Caliphate
era QS:P2348,Q12536
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Medium ink and pigments on parchment
Dimensions height: 13.5 cm (5.3 in); width: 21 cm (8.2 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,13.5U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,21U174728
institution QS:P195,Q210081
Accession number
W.552.2B
Place of creation central Arab lands
Object history
Credit line Acquired by Henry Walters
Source Walters Art Museum: Home page  Info about artwork
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