Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Others

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Orientali

Present shelfmark

Or. 459

Former shelfmark

Total pages

1 fol

Folio measures

Material composition

Composite

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

fol. 457r-v

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Italian

Script

Arabic

Incipit

panah mighiram اعوذ بناه ميڭيرم بالله

Incipit position

fol. 457r

Explicit

quelli che hano perdura[to] le strade neque eorum qui

Explicit position

fol. 457v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1586

Released place

Rome

Other dates

Other places

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

Descriptive card

The document described in included in a big folder containing material related to the Typographia Medicea. It shows Raimondi’s first copy and translation into Italian of the Sūrat al-Fātiḥa from the Persian tafsīr Mavāhib ʻAliyya (ʻAlī's Gifts), as supported by the uncertain Italian translation of the Persian text, which is also provided with occasional transliterations, but no translation of the Arabic.

Entry author

Sara Fani