The thousand-year-old manuscript contains the earliest surviving ... a forger paints copies of medieval evangelical portraits in gold leaf onto four pages in the book, presumably in an attempt ...

intricate gold leaf patterns were used to hide errors instead of discarding the expensive parchment. The text in the Blue Qur'an manuscript is written in Kufic script, a style of Arabic writing ...

The objects on view include exquisitely illuminated manuscripts featuring gold leaf and finely detailed illustrations. An 18th-century Qur’an on view is open to beautifully decorated pages bearing the ...