Illuminated Manuscript Koran, Text page with illuminated heading for chapter 79, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.562, fol.5b

Illuminated Manuscript Koran, Text page with illuminated heading for chapter 79, Walters Art Museum Ms. W.562, fol.5b, originally uploaded by Walters Art Museum Illuminated Manuscripts.

A leaf from an elegantly calligraphed and illuminated large codex containing a part of the Qur'an with the suras 78 through 114 and executed probably in Iran in the 9th AH / 15th CE century.

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