Chinese Qur’an Manuscript from 1498 during the Ming Dynasty
It was written in Tshangan (Xi’an) and currently resides in the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, California.
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It is formatted of entire Qur’anic text in one volume, and not a separate 30 volumes by ajza’. There are 17 lines to each page. The artistic detail1 on each page is of a uniquely Asian influence.2
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Images are sources from https://twitter.com/CellardEleonore/status/1617727397956288512
2
http://asianart.emuseum.com/