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Early Kūfic book style, leaf from a Qurʾān, 8th or 9th century; in the Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Old Ottoman naskhī script, opening of the Qurʾān, 1394; in the British Museum (MS. OR 4126).
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