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THE MASTER SCRIBES: Qur'ans of the 11th to 14th Centuries AD (The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL II)
THE MASTER SCRIBES Qur'ans of the 11th to 14th Centuries AD - The Nasser D. Khalili Collection of Islamic Art, VOL II Author:David James, DAVID LEWIS JAMES The second of four volumes cataloguing the Qur'ans, this book includes a Qur'an that retains its original illumination by the greatest calligrapher of the Middle Ages, Yaqut al-Musta 'simi. Other masterpieces include a Qur'an written in gold from twelfth-century Iraq; the only twelfth-century Qur'an from Valencia; and a manuscript that is possi... more »bly the earliest Qur'an to survive from India.« less