Section of a Qur'an

This manuscript is from the second volume of a luxurious Qur’an in which all 274 folios are elaborately illuminated. The text is written in a variation of thuluth script, with gold ink outlined in black and complemented by gold, red, and blue diacritical marks. Illuminated disks indicate verse endings and other denominations. A mark instructing the worshipper to perform a prostration takes the form of a six-pointed star encircling the word sajad, or "prostrate."

Credit: Fletcher Fund, 1924