Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Gdansk Library of the Polish Academy of Sciences

Collection

Present shelfmark

Ms 2345

Former shelfmark

XI o. 73.

Total pages

44 fols

Folio measures

28:14

Material composition

Composite

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Single text

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Complete

Released date

1698

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Yes

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

The 29th part of the Koran, Surah 67-77, with commentary by an unnamed author. The pages of the manuscript are bordered with a gold bar and thin black lines, the verses are divided by gold dots. The headings of the surahs are placed between two gold strips; the space on the right and left is adorned with gold ornaments on a red or blue background. The first page is particularly magnificent in blue and gold with floral work, but the gold background is empty and the heading for Sura 67 is missing. The Koran text is painted over in red. The codex was written for Sultan Mustafa II.

Entry author

Kasia Starczewska