Tunisia: A leaf in Kufic script from the celebrated 'Blue Qur'an', thought to have been created in Tunisia during the 9th-10th century.

This early Koran is one of its period’s most famous, especially because of the parchment’s blue color, and the script in gold and verse markers in now-decomposed silver. It is difficult to read the text because the spaces between some of the individual letters and between each word are the same. In order to spread the text uniformly over the page, certain letters were moreover lengthened artificially, a practice called mashq. The Qur'an has variously been ascribed to Iraq, Tunisia, Spain, and Sicily, but several features point to its having been made in Tunisia under the Aghlabids (800-909) or the early Fatimids (909-950).

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Scripts and Writing, Moors