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Description: Arabic alphabet in Kufic script, cropped from page 4 of Fry's Pantographia (1799) "The most ancient Arabic Letters are the Kufic, so named from the City of Kufa on the Euphrates; (Encyc. Franc. des Alph. anc. et mod. Pl. 3.) but they do not appear to be in use at this time.--This alphabet was communicated to Dr. Morton of the British Museum, by Dr. Hunt, Hebrew and Arabic Professor at Oxford, from the Bodleian Library. Dr. Morton's Tables."
Title: Kufic alphabet
Credit: http://www.fromoldbooks.org/Fry-Pantographia/pages/p004/
Author: Fry's Pantographia
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