Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Orientali

Present shelfmark

Or. 171

Former shelfmark

169

Total pages

132 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

Incipit position

fol. 1r

Explicit

Explicit position

fol. 132r

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1501

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Rome

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

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/tags/BML%2C%20Or.%20170,BML%2C%20Or.%20171,BML%2C%20Or.%20172/search/assemani/titleCreatorYear/item-list

Descriptive card

Third of a four-volume Qur'an (Q 19-35). Giovanni Battista Raimondi added occasional and sometimes wrong verse numbering on the margins, corresponding to those indicated in BML Or. 457. The manuscripts has an added title: "Pars Alcorani Arabice" (fol. 1r) in Raimondi's hand.

Entry author

Sara Fani