Iraq: Pages from a Qur’an written in Baghdad in 1282-3 CE by calligrapher Yaqat al-Musta’simi in rare ‘muhaqqaq’ script.

Muhaqqaq is a type of calligraphic script in Arabic derived from Thuluth by widening the horizontal sections of the letters in the Thuluth script. It was abandoned after the 16th century and only a very few examples survive.

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