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Spain: Two parchment leaves from a Qur'an written in Maghribi script, 13th century.

Spain: Two parchment leaves from a Qur'an written in Maghribi script, 13th century.

Maghribi script was predominant in North Africa and Muslim Spain from the 11th to 14th centuries. Parchment was typically used for Qur'ans in the Maghreb and Spain long after paper had become the dominant material farther east.

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