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        "tombstone": "Qur'an Manuscript Folio, 1200s\u20131300s. Southern Spain. Ink, gold, and color on parchment; sheet: 52.7 x 55.4 cm (20 3/4 x 21 13/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Edward L. Whittemore Fund, 1933.440",
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        "title": "Qur'an Manuscript Folio",
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                {
                    "id": 300857,
                    "title": "Art: The International Language",
                    "description": "<i>Art: The International Language</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art (October 2-November 4, 1956).",
                    "opening_date": "1956-10-02T04:00:00"
                },
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                    "id": 443194,
                    "title": "Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World",
                    "description": "<i>Calligraphy in the Arts of the Muslim World</i>. Asia House Galleries, New York City, NY (organizer) (January 11-March 11, 1979); The Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH (April 17-May 27, 1979); Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA (June 28-August 12, 1979); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (September 14-October 28, 1979).",
                    "opening_date": "1979-01-11T05:00:00"
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                {
                    "id": 342622,
                    "title": "Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation)",
                    "description": "<i>Al-Andalus: Art from Islamic Spain (Islamic art rotation)</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (October 29, 2019-October 25, 2020).",
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                    "description": "<em>The Heritage of Islam</em>. Houston, TX; San Francisco, CA; Pittsburgh, PA; Washington, D.C. (March 10, 1982-September 5, 1983).",
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                    "description": "<em>Main Gallery Rotation (gallery 116)</em>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (December 16, 2013-December 15, 2014).",
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                "description": "(Mehmet Aga-Oglu [1896\u20131949], Ann Arbor, MI, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)",
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        "description": "This page from the \u201cChapter of Light\u201d (24:59\u201361) in the Qur'an is written in the monumental script of Islamic Spain and North Africa, known as Maghribi Kufic. Words flow rhythmically with curving flourishes toward the left margin where letters end in almost perfect semicircles, an elegant hallmark that contrasts with the upright shafts. Distinctive markings\u2014vowels in red and diacritics in blue\u2014identify the vocalization of the text, which would have been read or recited aloud to an assembly.",
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            {
                "citation": "Franklin, David and C. Griffith Mann. <em>Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.",
                "page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 110-111",
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            "Leaf from a Koran.",
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