Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana

Collection

Orientali

Present shelfmark

Or. 169

Former shelfmark

171

Total pages

163, II' fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

fols. 1v-163v

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

fol. 1v

Explicit

Explicit position

fol. 163v

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1501

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Rome

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

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.%20169,BML%2C%20Or.%20170,BML%2C%20Or.%20171/item-list

Descriptive card

Fourth of a four-volume Qur'an (Q 36-114), consulted by Giovanni Battista Raimondi. The manuscripts has an added title: "Pars Alcorani Arabice" (fol. 1r) in Raimondi's hand.

Entry author

Sara Fani