Kūfic script: Quick Facts

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Early Kūfic book style

Figure 214: Bottle of enamelled and gilt glass decorated withChinese motifs and an inscription in Kufic lettering praising anunknown sultan, Syrian, Mamluk period, c. 1300. In the Victoria andAlbert M

Kūfic script. Double page opening of a Qurʾān from Syria, 9th century ad. In the collection of R. Pinder-Wilson.

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