Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Collection

Arabe

Present shelfmark

Arabe 384

Former shelfmark

Hurault 45; MMLXX (Rigault, 1622); 2284 (Dupuy); 451 (Regius); Ancien fonds arabe 209.

Total pages

III, 248, 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

بِسم ٱلله ٱلرَّحمن ٱلرَّحيمِ (1:1)

Incipit position

fol 2v

Explicit

اِذَا زُلزِلَتِ الاَرضُ (100:1)

Explicit position

fol 248v

Preservation state

Lacunous

Released date

1001

Released place

Egypt

Other dates

1201, 1250, 1301, 1670

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: sajda, in same colour of sūra titles (green or red) and juz' in ink; notes in Latin (translation and polemics), by two (Italian?) hands of the end of the XIII c. and of the XIV c. Codicological description: - Oriental paper; - 232 × 272 mm; - 17 lines per page; - text area: 165 × 124 mm; - black ink; - quinions; - Italian binding or of Italian style; - naskh. Content presentation: - incomplete (folios 2-139: sūra 1:1-23:33; folios 140-248: sūras 23:110-99:1); - the birth of Muḥammad b. Ismaʿīl b, Abū al-Ḥasan, in Shaʿbān 648/October-November 1250, is mentioned (fol. 1r). History of conservation: - two marks of possession: only the one of al-Ḥasan b. Tammām is readable (fol. 2r); - one of the annotators has numbered the manuscript's folios (only in verso) and the sūras in Roman cifres; - one of the annotators is Riccoldo da Monte di Croce; - it comes from the library of Jean Hurault de Boistaillé, sent in a special mission to Constantinople in 1557-1558; - indication of selling price (10 crowns?) paid to a person of Costantinople; - note indicationg the presence of a Qur'ān in the library of Ph. Hurault, bishop of Chartres, entered in the royal library in 1622; - reading note by Buṭrus b. Diyab al-Ḥalabī, of 1670 (fol. 2r); - description in Latin by d'Herbelot.

Entry author

Olivier Salem