Type of description:

From images

Typology

Others

Current_location

Institution

Bodleian Library

Collection

Laud

Present shelfmark

MS. Laud. Misc. 537

Former shelfmark

Total pages

52 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Homogeneous

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Old French

Script

Incipit

Le Livre de l’eschiele Mahomet (rubric)

Incipit position

f. 1r

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1301

Released place

England

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

This is the only known manuscript of the Livre de l'eschiele. From the seventeenth to the eighteenth century, it was catalogued as a partial translation of the Qur'an.

Entry author

Florence Ninitte