Type of description:

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Herzog August Bibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

23.20. Ms. Aug. 4

Former shelfmark

Total pages

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

No

Marginalia

No

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

An undated Latin note (seventeenth-century hand) reveals that this Qur'an ms. had been owned by the famous scholar and diplomat Ezechiel Spanheim (1629-1710), who had purchased it in the Netherlands and presented it to August the Younger, duke of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel in 1661. According to Spanheim, the famous Leiden Arabist, Jacob Golius had inspected this Qur'an and claimed that it had been written in Meca. Rectißime hesterna charta habebeat: Et est hic Alcoranus integer, nitide quidem, sed properante calamo scriptus. Puncta vocalia alicubi omissa, et ductus literarum celeritate scribentis nonnumquam ita confusi, ut juncturarum varietas omnes omnino Grammaticorum Arabicorum Regulas excedat, et notas utique Criticorum observationes merentur. De sensu nihil addo. Extant enim interpretationes Alcorani. Et nuper ante quadriennum, Ravius Daniae minister, versionem interlinearem promissit, an autem ediderit, annon, me latet hactenus. and [manu altera] Ex litteris Ezechielis Spanheimii Heidelbergae 23. Martij, 1661. exaratus. Alcornai scriptum elegantissimis ductibus Codicem â me olim in Belgio comparatum ausus sum hîc quoque libris Tuis comitem addere. Meccae scriptum asserebat harum litterarum Princeps jacobus [sic] Golius, et qui nobiliorem alibi quam in Augustâ tuâ Bibliothecâ locum occupare non poterat.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov