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Ekhtiar, Maryam. How to Read Islamic Calligraphy. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2018. no. 11, pp. 54–57, 73, ill. pp. 54, 56–57, fig. 35.
and rich gold gilding, as well as this pink dyed paper, suggests that this originally belonged to a royal or noble patron. - [Steven] Paper in Europe referred to as a bifolium from a pink Qur'an. And what that means is, it is one sheet of paper with four sides. A Qur'an is the teachings
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Dark Green occurs in the Quran only once ( 55:64). As the colour of dense foliage, it allegorically portrays the thriving life of eternal garden. And when the news of (the birth of) a female (child) is brought to any of them, his face becomes dark, and he is filled with inward grief![An-Nahl:58] Follow it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur2B7S8hmms&index=1&list=PLrym_grlN1V9T-uLyexmhAbO5J8s4bED6 Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin." Recent Acquisitions. A Selection: 2016–2018 (Fall 2018). pp. 16–17, ill. p. 16.
And he turned away from them and said: “Alas, my grief for Yusuf (Joseph)!” And he lost his sight because of the sorrow that he was suppressing.[Yusuf :84] We send a wind [which would spoil the green growth (tilth) brought up by the previous rain], and they see (their tilth) turn yellow..[Ar-Rum 51]Qur'an was disassembled so pieces could be sold separately, so that these objects could be framed and put on the collector's wall, and so disassociated from Fraser, Marcus, and Will Kwiatkowski. "July 14–August 31, 2006." In Ink and Gold: Islamic Calligraphy. London, 2006. Describes other folios from the Pink Qur'an.