Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Orientali

Present shelfmark

Or. 402

Former shelfmark

501, XI; 499 [crossed out >] 501

Total pages

82 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Multiple text

Textual interval

fol 1v-42r

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

الْحَمْدُ لِلَّهِ الَّذِي خَلَقَ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ وَجَعَلَ الظُّلُمَاتِ وَالنُّورَ (6:1)

Incipit position

fol 1v

Explicit

مَا قَدَّمَتْ يَدَاهُ وَيَقُولُ الْكَافِرُ يَا لَيْتَنِي كُنتُ تُرَابًا (78:40)

Explicit position

fol 42r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1551

Released place

Other dates

1584

Other places

Rome

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

No

Quranic structure decoration

No

Quranic reading

Not applicable

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.%20402/library

Descriptive card

The codex contains a selection of four suras (6, al-Anʻām; 36, Yāsīn; 67, al-Mulk; 78, al-Nabaʼ) that are followed by prayers in Ottoman language. It is composed by two codicological units, written by the same hand; between the two, after fol 29, some folios remained blank and are not numbered. On the upper pastedown a note written by Giovanni Battista Raimondi and dated "6 di Gennaro 1599" shows that the codex was part of the collection of oriental manuscripts gathered for the Typographia Medicea. In particular the codex comes "Dal sig. Camillo", possibly the trader Camillo Fieravante of Istria, a collaborator of the Typographia Medicea.

Entry author

Sara Fani