Type of description:

From the original

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Herzog August Bibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

Extrav. 239. 6

Former shelfmark

Total pages

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Textual composition

Single text

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

This copy of the Qur'an was taken as war spoils by a captain of the Wolfenbüttel Berstorff regiment on 9 August 1685. His entry (holding the Qur'an upside down) reads: Dies buch hat Capitain Ge[?] [?] von dem berrenztorffen regiment von den Wollfenbüttelschen in Neuheussel- beutte gemacht den 9 augusti.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov