Type of description:

From images

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Süleymaniye Kütüphanesi

Collection

Present shelfmark

Faith 16

Former shelfmark

Total pages

70 fols

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Parchment

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

,Acephalous,Apodous,Complete,Lacunous

Released date

Released place

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

069vf.

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

(click me)

Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Vol. 5 og 8; Q. 17:75-26:227. 13 lines per page. Patron: 'Abd Allāh Muḥammad al-Mutanṣir (r. 1249-1277) Large Maġribī Qur'ānic calligraphy. Blackish-brown ink; with red (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and yellow (hamza); versemakers, marginal vignettes, and opening heading illuminated in gold. Carpet pages in the beginning and end with geometrical design. Sura headings in Kūfī script, dedication in fronis- and finispiece in Maġribī ṯuluṯ; all in chrysography. Left side of a carpet pages in the beginning with geometrical design. Dedicated to the hizāna of 'Abū Allāh Muḥammad amīr al-Mu'minīn; cf. frontispiece and finispiece- Stamp of Ottoman Sultan Maḥmūd I (r. 1740-1754). fol. 1r, when he transferred his collection to the Ayasofa library. Stamp of Aḥmad Šeyāde, supervisor of the imperial pious foundations (Evkaf-i Haremeyn).

Entry author

Marina Santana