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16th century Qur'an from India, Add MS 18497, ff. 118v - 119r. The centre text pages of this Indian Qur'an are distinguished by their carpet page design. The text here is split up with alternating scripts in various coloured inks. The first, middle and last lines are written in muhaqqaq script, a popular style for large illuminated Qur'ans as its angular and cursive features giving the calligrapher an opportunity to combine fluidity with rigidity. These lines alternate in gold and blue on a white ground.
  • Archnet for Bebek, Istanbul Fishing on the Bosphorus (Bebek, Istanbul, 1958, Walter Denny)
  • The Getty for Sainte Sophie (After 1883. Sébah & Joaillier. Pierre de Gigord collection of Photographs of the Ottoman Empire and the Republic of Turkey Series III, Getty Research Institute 96.R.14 (C19.8a))