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The Korans of the Maghaib or the Islamic West departed at an
early date from teh stream of development of the central +
eastern Islamic lands, developing a curvilinearization of
the old Kufic script + preserving a number of archaic features.
- papyrus - likely always used for copies of the Koran until
sometime in the 10th C.
diacritical points to distinguish between letters of otherwise
identical form.
Vowel marks - are red, green or yellow dots
diacritical marks in brown - black, further onthographic digns
in blue etc
Verse marking is rosette in gold (100th verse - a [inserted] special large one) [end inserted]
fully vocalized in red
leaf from a Koran IXC - ink, gold + colors on parchment
(metropolitan M.) VIII - IXC - parchment dyed red written in ink

Maghibi script of N. Africa + Moorish Spain.
In the Kufic Quarans of the 9-10th C the vowels are
indicated by dots, usually in red + short diagonal strokes
serve as diacritical marks to distinguish between letters
of the same form. This is the inverse of the present
system which came into use in teh 11th C.