Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Orientali

Present shelfmark

Or. 296

Former shelfmark

Total pages

515 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

fols 1r-515v

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic,Persian

Script

Arabic

Incipit

مَثَلُ مَا يُنفِقُونَ فِي هَٰذِهِ الْحَيَوةِ [كذا] الدُّنْيَا كَمَثَلِ رِيحٍ فِيهَا صِرٌّ أَصَابَتْ

Incipit position

fol. 1r

Explicit

وَمِن شَرِّ غَاسِقٍ إِذَا وَقَبَ وَمِن شَرِّ النَّفَّاثَاتِ فِي الْعُقَدِ

Explicit position

fol. 515v

Preservation state

Acephalous,Apodous

Released date

1401

Released place

Afghan-Indian region

Other dates

1584

Other places

Rome

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Ḥafṣ

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/BML%2C%20Or.%20296/library

Descriptive card

It is a precious monumental copy of a Qur'an in bihārī calligraphic style, provided with a Persian commentary on the margins, and finely decorated. The manuscript was part of the collection of the Typographia Medicea of Rome (1584-1614). It is one of the witnesses that Giovanni Battista Raimondi, scientific director of the printing house, had at his disposal for his study of the Qurʼan.

Entry author

Sara Fani