EDLD 5366 Week 1 Assignment - Ancient Manuscript

I chose Baybar’s Qur’an as my manuscript because I wanted to view a work that was purely visual and not textual. This was a magnificently beautiful book. In Baybar’s Qur’an, the colors orange, blue, gold, and brown are predominant and repeated on every page. The geometric mosaics throughout are contrasted by having no two adjacent tiles be the same color and the text is written in white for further contrast. On the pages of text, the majority of the text is yellow contrasting with the few lines written in orange to add emphasis. The facing pages containing mosaic patterns are symmetrically aligned with mirror images facing each other (except for the text), which is then contrasted on two of the pages, which have no reflection, signifying the end of a section or emphasizing the importance of the pages. I would know more about the significance if I spoke Arabic. Additionally, the facing pages almost always have the same margin with respect to the spine of the book. Further, throughout the text, symbols are placed in proximity to the text to make the page more appealing, and text is placed within the middle of the mosaics to emphasize these specific words.