Folio from a Qur'an Manuscript, 8th–9th century, Made in Egypt or Iraq, Ink on parchment, H. 8 1/2 in. (21.6 cm), Codices, While the earliest surviving Qur’ans were copied in a tall, streamlined script known as hijazi on a vertical parchment support , such preferences were abandoned during the Umayyad period as scribes developed the horizontal format and kufic script of the kind seen in this folio
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