147:“ And a Khitmah of Qur’an in sixty juz’, of big format, with a Kufic Rayhani script, five lines, on parchment. Each juz’ of it has a gilded opening, surah headings and hizb markers and tenth’s markers. Some of them are gilded in their closing. Vocalizations are in red, green and azure. Some of them are covered in leather on wood, others in silk on leather on wood, and some in silk on wood. All of them have lost their ornamentation. This is how the description of this Khitmah appears in the Sigill cited20, and this is how it appears now, with its bindings destroyed.”
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According to the national institute of heritage, the book is divided into 60 hizbs with over 2900 folios of parchment in total. The page measure 44,5x30cm and contain five lines (6 cm high) each. These leaves are currently exposed in different museums of the world such as the
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The
Kairouani style remained very discrete and very few examples where it was is used during the same period as Quran of the Nurse were found. Among these examples, we can mention a small travel pocket Quran written on parchment dating from the 10th century.
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Kairouani style was used for the first time in the Nurse's Quran, finished in 1020 during the last decades of
Kairouan’s intellectual and political golden era. The manuscript was kept for centuries in the
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2017 was dedicated to the
Kairouani style, and as a way to emphasize on its importance, many Tunisian calligraphy masters presented paintings featuring the Kairouani script such as
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The Nurse's Quran was discovered after the publication of an article in an
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prince's nurse, commissioned the creation of the manuscript for the Great Mosque. Additionally, according to some historians,
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conducted deeper research on the manuscripts. He disassembled them and took their bindings to the
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