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- Collection: BOLINTINEANU - BSR
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BSR - Binding, outer covers and doublures: upper, lower, and flap"Durable yet easily decorated, leather presented an ideal material for protecting Islamic manuscripts. Some particularly fine bindings executed in the…
BSR - Moveable Type"Moveable type printing was invented in China around 1045, but was never practiced on a large scale as the number of Chinese script characters (about…
BSR - Scribal Implements“The pen is a key that opens the door to the necessities of life.” This group of Ottoman scribal implements consists of three pairs of steel…
Qur’an Folio (Aga Khan Museum, AKM248)"The dispersed “Blue Qur’an” to which this folio belongs is one of the most famous surviving Qur’an manuscripts. The text of this outstanding…