Type of description:

From a catalogue

Typology

Qur'an

Current_location

Institution

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Collection

Present shelfmark

Arabe 389

Former shelfmark

Séguier 139; Saint-Germain 68; Supplément arabe 152a

Total pages

92, II, II fols'

Folio measures

Material composition

Writing support

Paper

Textual composition

Textual interval

Title on manuscript

Title position

Attributed Title

Tome I d'un Coran en cinq volumes

Language

Arabic

Script

Arabic

Incipit

Incipit position

Explicit

Explicit position

Preservation state

Lacunous

Released date

1405

Released place

Tunis

Other dates

Other places

Colophon

Colophon position

General decoration

Yes

Quranic structure decoration

Quranic reading

Illustrations

Marginalia

Link to library catalogue

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Bibliographical references

Descriptive card

Vol. 1 of 5; Q. 1:1-5:81; lacuna Q: 4:132-5:20. Binding: 24.5 x 16.5 x 2 cm. Surface: 24,2 x 15,8 cm. Textblock: 17.5 x 11 cm. 13 lines per page. Dyed paper, dark red; misṭara; quinions; 94 fols (3 bis & 72 bis). Restored binding. Edges of leather doublures lie on top of the turn-ins. Cover: overall pattern with bordure; front star pattern, black geometrical design. Number of ĝuz' on the leather cover. Maġribī round script; bookhand. Copied in silver ink, sura footers in gold; verse markers illuminated; marginal vignettes in Amohad design. Polychrome mnemonic markers for the reading of the qira'āt. Endowed to Qaṣba Mosque in 807/1405 on royal order, cf. endowment deed on fol. 3br (taḥbīs 3). Owner's mark in 2nd vol.: Muḥammad al-Ḥusaynī. Coll. Pierre Séguier, bequeathed to the abbey of Saint-Germain des Prés in 1732. Old shelfmarks: 8 Z (?); Séguier 139 (1672); Saint-Germain 68; Supplément arabe 152a. Vol. IV in St. Petersburg.

Entry author

Marina Santana