Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

British Library

Collection

Present shelfmark

Or 12523C

Former shelfmark

Total pages

III, 37, III fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

no

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Script

Incipit

Q.27:57

Incipit position

f.2v

Explicit

Q.28:50

Explicit position

f. 36v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1200

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

f.36v

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Warš

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

(click me)

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/BLY4PW5H/items/MEZZY832/collection

Descriptive card

Volume 39 of a Qur’ān, originally in 60 volumes, copied probably in Granada. According to Martin Lings: "The previous owner acquired these volumes just after the First World War from a princely Moroccan family whose ancestors had brought them from Spain, so it was said, when the Christian Reconquest forced Moslems to take refuge in Morocco."

Entry author

Teresa Madrid