Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Collection

Present shelfmark

Arabe 388

Former shelfmark

Saint-Germain 289; Supplément arabe 157

Total pages

87, V, II' 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

Released place

Tunis

Other dates

Other places

Abbey of Saint-Germain

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Vol 2 of 12 (?); Q. 3-4 Binding: 20.5 x 18.5 x 3.5 cm. Surface: 20 x 17.5 cm. Textblock 12.5 x 11 cm. 9 lines per page. Parchment; rule of Gregory; traces of side line ruling: dry point; fols. I-IV & I'-II' fly-leaves in paper, fol. V parchment (not counted). European binding; coat of arms Napoleon I. In good condition. Large Maġribī Qur'ānic calligraphy. Brown ink; with red (vowels), blue (sukkūn, šadda), green (waṣla), and yellow(hamza); versemarkers, marginal vignettes, and opening heading illuminated in gold. Left side of a carpet pages in the beginning with geometrical design. Sura headings in chrysography, Kūfī script (outlined in black ink). Endowment deed on fol. 1r (taḥbīs 14). Library Eusèbe Renaudot. Bequeathed to the abbey of Saint Germain des Prés in 1720. Old shelfmarks: 8Z (?); Saint-Germain 289; Supplément arabe 157.

Entry author

Marina Santana