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Folio from the "Qur'an of `Umar Aqta'

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Ink opaque watercolor and gold on paper
Rights: Public Domain
Islamic Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York NY, Gift of Samuel T. Peters 1918
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Title: Folio from the "Qur'an of `Umar Aqta'
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Ink opaque watercolor and gold on paper.

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