Bifolium from a Fragmentary Qur'an (fols. 3 and 10)
This is a ninth-century Arabic manuscript leaf, a bifolium from a fragmentary Qur'an, made in the Islamic world around 850 and held by the J. Paul Getty Museum; its maker is unknown and it was copied for devotional reading. The pictures show gold and ink Kufic script on cream vellum, with blue and gold illuminated frames and rosette medallions, offering a designer strong models for geometric borders, angular lettering and restrained gilded ornament.
