Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana

Collection

Present shelfmark

Vat.ar.215

Former shelfmark

Total pages

110, I, I' 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

Released date

1312

Released place

Tunis

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

109r

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Yes

Marginalia

Yes

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Very fine and thin parchment; Gregory's rule; edges cut; bifolio; tertions. 109 fols. counted (fol. 1 & 1a). Parchment restored (also text). 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 with vegetal design. Sura headings in Kūfī script, colophon in Maġribī ṯuluṯ; all in chrysography. Copied in Tunis 712/1312; cf. colophon on fol. 109r. In the collection of Lelio Ruini, bishop of Bagnoregio (1613-1621), cf. owner's mark on fol. 109r: "Emptus ex Libris Illustrissimi Lelij Ruini episcopi Balneoregiensis 1622". In the Ecchellense inventory (between 1653-1658): n. 146.

Entry author

Marina Santana