Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Orientali

Present shelfmark

Or. 233

Former shelfmark

455, XI; 452

Total pages

IV, 319, III' fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

fols [1b]v-318r

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

بِسْمِ اللَّهِ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ رَبِّ الْعَالَمِينَ الرَّحْمَنِ الرَّحِيمِ مَالِكِ يَوْمِ الدِّينِ (1:1)

Incipit position

fol 1v

Explicit

صِرَاطَ الَّذِينَ أَنْعَمْتَ عَلَيْهِمْ غَيْرِ الْمَغْضُوبِ عَلَيْهِمْ وَلاَ الضَّالِّينَ (1:7)

Explicit position

fol 318r

Preservation state

Lacunous

Released date

1551

Released place

Other dates

1685

Other places

Koroni

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

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.%20233/library

Descriptive card

The codex is dated according to the watermarks. Copied by different hands (see fol. 138v). Fols [1b]v and 1r have wide blank head and lateral margins, probably in view of decorative elements to be added. The verses are marked in red as well as the titles of the suras (until fol. 138). The codex if very disrupted and the original collation is difficult to reconstruct. An ownership note on fol. [1b]v reads: "Ad uso di Miche[l] Ang[elo] di Candia Crite[se] a dì 24 sett[emb]re ho fatto riconoscer il p[re]sente libro da un Turco letterato, e me ha detto essere l'Alcorano cioè la legge de Turchi". The Franciscan friar Michelangelo Farolfi da Candia took part in the Morean War (1684-1699). A description of the church of Santa Maria in Araceli (Rome) makes a reference to this codex as it was hung off the altar dedicated to S. Giovanni da Capistrano. It was preserved in an embroided satchel with a note attesting that it had been looted by Michelangelo da Candia during the siege Koroni (11 August 1685) in the Great Mosque of the city; in 1686 it was donated to the Church of S. Maria. Another Qur'an looted in that occasion is manuscript Or. 8 of the Biblioteca Angelica (Rome). Before entering the Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana the codex was in the Palatine Library of the Medici family where many oriental manuscripts previously collected in Rome by cardinals and prelates of the family had been gathered. The Palatine Library of the Medici Familiy merged with the Laurenziana in 1771.

Entry author

Sara Fani