brown, red, and green colours

Ingredients

brown ink, red ink, green ink

Evidence

"one of the main features of Qurʾanic manuscripts from the early Abbasid period (the 2nd half of the 8th century) is their polychrome nature... an early 2nd/8th century Qurʾanic fragment executed in brown, red, and green colours."

Remarks

Early Abbasid Qur'anic manuscripts frequently used various colors for representing vocalization and later for chapter headings and key-words in the text. This specific fragment from the 2nd half of the 8th century demonstrates the polychrome nature of early calligraphy and decoration (p. 180).