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Illuminated Numbers

A collection of verse markers

Joumana Medlej
Feb 9
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Illuminated Numbers

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My posts tend to be quite long and I know it’s hard to keep up with everything that lands in the inbox, so from time to time I’m sending a purely visual newsletter. Today is a collection of verse markers from a ninth-century Qur’an1.

In the early days of the Islamic scribal tradition, verse markers injected rare notes of colourful decoration into otherwi…

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