Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Collection

Arabe

Present shelfmark

Arabe 411

Former shelfmark

DV 9 (Oratoire); Supplément arabe 144.

Total pages

160, II fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

بسم اللَّه الرَّحمن الرَّحيم (1:1)

Incipit position

fol 1v

Explicit

مِنَ الْجِنَّةِ وَالْنَّاسِ (114:6)

Explicit position

fol 160v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1401

Released place

Turkey

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Ḥafṣ

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Marginalia: the word "ʿashr", sometimes present, indicates the groups of ten verses; at the beginning of the volume there is ḥizb division in red. Codicological description: - Oriental paper (exception made for the restorations); - 114 × 101 mm; - 15 lines per page; - text area: 71 × 69 mm; - black ink; - catchwords (sing. taʿqība); - quinions; - Oriental binding; - naskh. Content presentation: - the lacunous parts of ff° 9, 159 and 160 have been filled in by a more recent hand. History of conservation: - description in Latin and some Arabic writing practice by a Western hand (fol. 1r).

Entry author

Olivier Salem