Page from the Koran

horizontal page with 4 lines of Persian Kufic writing in black for the consonants and diacritical marks, red for the vowels, green and blue for reading marks (green for wasla, blue for hamza, tashid, sukun); text starts (on the side which has the New York Exhibition label) with Sura 54, middle of verse 27 and goes towards the end of verse 31; the gold discs with the green center mark the end of a single verse, the large marginal half-disc the end of a fifth verse, and the large round discs in the margin the end of the thirtieth verse