Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek

Collection

Present shelfmark

Q 660

Former shelfmark

Total pages

288 fols

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

Complete

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

an Loop, “Hiob Ludolf, the Qur’an, and the History of Writing”, in Ben-Tov, Loop and Mulsow (eds.), Hiob Ludolf and Johann Michael Wansleben: Oriental Study, Politics, and History between Gotha and Africa 1650-1700 (Leiden, 2023), pp. 351-89.

Descriptive card

This Qur’an ms. was owned by the famous orientalist Hiob Ludolf (1624-1704). While this was not Ludolf main Qur’an manuscript, there several instructive marginalia in his hand. It had been taken as soils from the Hungarian town of Pécs by Ludolf’s cousin, an officer by the name of Heinrich Rudolf Gersentberg. See Ludolf’s entry final fol. (in Ludolf’s hand) Alcoranus Mahometis. Codex iste Quinquecclesiis (Fünf Kirchen) Urbe Hungarica, in irruptione Comitis Serini Ao. 1664 praedae factus, ac mihi J. Ludolfo dono datus, a sobrino meo equitum praefecto Heinrico Rudolfo Gerstenbergero sub Comite Wolfgango Julio de Hohenloe militante.

Entry author

Asaph Ben Tov